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Educating the Falses: The Tale of the American Battle Wizards Storming Through the Barricades of Moridor to defeat European Darkspawn Metalians of Power in the Battle of Scalzi
For the most part, power metal is universally a joke around metal heads due to it’s crap songwriting, lack of riffs, hardly touching down with “metal” because it’s so vagina-esque, and the unbelievably cheesy imagery, as seen above. I mean, that’s wolf shirt material right there. It might even be on a shirt somewhere. For those unfamiliar with the depths of this scene in America, it has balls. That’s right! American power metal (uspm) is another world and actually contains cool stuff. Like metal, non gay, riffs, and other nice stuff that metal heads enjoy. USPM is basically NWOBM (new wave of British heavy metal for you super falses) but with a couple twists.
It’s a bit ballsier, to sum it. It’s a bit hard to explain, but easy to hear. It all started when the hilarious band Manowar, and Manilla Road dropped the earliest USPM releases in ’80 and ’82., and we as Americans had claimed our take on the early English metal scene. Manilla Road were the first to find the sound, and Manowar (somehow) really brought it together by getting the sound out there a bit. Manowar are lame and aren’t that good anyway, so lets move on from that.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJR93PD1s-Q[/youtube]
That’s the first song off of Invasion, the debut album by Manilla Road. Yep, that poorly produced, but still catchy and rifftastic tune is it. As time went on, and the genre continued, two bands came onto the scene to completely change it forever. These two groups, named Fates Warning and Brocas Helm hit the scene in ’84 and they both hit it hard. The significance of these bands is overlooked because of their subtle addition. By then, these guys were stepping up the heavy and the awesome riffs and getting some really cool song writing ideas in there. Brocas Helm really hit this scene hard, and unfortunately it made a dead impact.
The band was never really looked upon highly, or even heard of very well among the metal cretins at the time. Where these guys slam new into this genre, while other ones genres were starting and smacking audiences in the face, is their crazy song writing, amazing riffs, and harsh vocals (for the time, and the genre. obviously they aren’t very harsh at all.) These guys paved the way for all heavy uspm bands to follow. Not to mention their bassist really created an amazing texture for a treble ridden genre with his amazing chops.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP67vfqLZ1I[/youtube]
So where does this all lead us? As of today, all the mentioned bands so far are still active and playing and creating. But where would a genre be without new and exciting bands? So here, I will list my three favorite modern USPM bands, and give an example of a kickin song from them with a youtube link to a kickin’ song, and my favorite albums of theirs.
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Albums to check out: Down Among the Dead Men, Traveller
Albums to check out: Over the Top, High Speed GTO EP
Albums to check out: The August Engine, The Locust Years
There you have it folks. That’s my quick review of the USPM scene. If I have any details wrong, leave me a comment. If you’re right, I’ll make sure to change it. Of course, some of this is opinion, so shut the fuck up if you disagree (just kidding, I love you guys).
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Port of Duluth in rail record
December 4 - The Port of Duluth, USA has handled a total of 16 electrical transformers, each weighing over 300 tonnes, for a major power transmission line in the Canadian province of Alberta.
The transformers were shipped from Antwerp, Belgium to the port in succession aboard Hansa Heavy Lift (HHL) vessels, and were discharged along with nearly 500 crates of smaller components, at the Clure Public Marine Terminal in Duluth.
The first shipment, which was transported aboard the HHL Mississippi, arrived in July, with the last two shipments arriving on the HHL Amur in October and December.
Two of the transformers were loaded out on rail in September, using specialised 16-axle railcars. The remaining units will be transported on a series of trains scheduled with Canadian Pacific, and will set the record for the highest count of independent, over-dimensional trains used for a single heavy haul project.
Fracht USA is handling the turnkey logistics for the entire transmission line project and owns two of the only four specialised railcars in North America that are able to handle cargo of this size.
Commenting on the KRL16800 series cars which are handling the transformers, Benjamin Liewald, senior vice president of projects at Fracht USA said: "We worked on refining the design and engineering on our cars for almost two years to bring out the best product possible."
"Between the lightweight steel and high load capacity of 800,000 lbs (362.9 tonnes), it is a new generation of railcars and we are pleased that this project started only a few months after the railcars rolled out of Kasgro's factory," he added.
Duluth's public terminal, the port's only breakbulk terminal, is owned by Duluth Seaway Port Authority and operated by Lake Superior Warehousing.
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Just as COVID-19 does not discriminate against individuals, it does not discriminate against countries either, and the UK is leading the international effort. As a member of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, last week we published a report about how the Chinese communist regime’s disinformation has cost so many lives. China could have helped other nations prepare a swift response, but instead manipulated vital information about the virus in order to protect their regime's image. We are calling for a new approach to future relationships with China and a reformed, science-led, transparent, global health alliance, putting patients world-wide as a priority, not politically convenient cover-ups.
Locally I wish to thank all involved at the official Crawley and Sussex COVID-19 Community Hub, located at a redeployed K2 Leisure Centre. This work is vital to ensure support gets to the most vulnerable people.
Last week also saw Gatwick Airport’s long-stay car park transformed into a drive-through coronavirus testing centre, first for NHS staff and key workers.
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Please take two minutes to email your thoughts (even just a very brief response is better than nothing) or fill in the online questionnaire, telling Sheffield Council what you think of proposals for inner city regeneration that will harm (the question is, how much?) Sheffield’s heritage.
The consultation ends Friday 28th September. This time round it’s the council that is the developer – there is no third party to blame. Please e-mail your comments to info@heartofcity2.com or give them online at https://www.heartofcity2.com/public-consultation
The proposal is to retain Laycock House, a fine Victorian building, but to demolish the rest of the block and replace with modern buildings.
The old Athol Hotel, in ‘mock tudor’ cladding, and neighbouring good quality Victorian building, would be demolished and replaced by new build under the current proposals. The mock tudor cladding might give the impression that there’s nothing much to lose, but we only need to look to the building alongside and old postcards to see the fine stone and brickwork that are beneath the cladding. The building between Laycock and the old Athol Hotel, together with a restored Athol Hotel, would hold this corner very well indeed and give the Laycock building the setting it deserves.
Below is the proposed replacement. We are told that “The ethos of the design is to create a striking, angular new building to complement and contrast with the late Victorian Laycock House”…
It’s certainly a contrast, but clearly the new building does nothing to complement the fine Laycock House. A mock up that included some colour, would no doubt show even more of a ‘contrast’ too.
The larger new build behind the ‘angular building’ will house seven floors worth of apartments, with retail units on the ground floor. Given the nondescript nature of the present block in that position, it’s not any worse than at present, though the design does nothing to complement the historic buildings which are the strong point of the vicinity.
‘Block C’
Block C is the triangle containing the Pepperpot building – a recognisable and characterful Victorian building. With a good clean, the pepperpot, and the old Midland Bank at the other end of the block, will have more admirers than anonymous, anytown block can muster. The plan is not to spruce up the entire triangle, but to keep only the part fronting Pinstone Street. The rear section of the Pepperpot, and the Victorian block behind that, are to be replaced by a large office block, according to the present proposals.
The proposed new section follows in the footsteps of the HSBC block now in place alongside it. You don’t need to be an architect to see that, at eight storeys tall, it overwhelms what remains of the Victorian triangular block. The guiding principle is evident: squeeze in as tall a building as possible in as big a footprint as possible, to maximise revenue.
Times have changed since the John Lewis/Hammerson ‘Sevenstone’ scheme and even the ‘New Retail Quarter’ that came later. The rise of Internet shopping and out of town shopping centres have crippled retail in many town centres. John Lewis are staying put and private investment in the Moor (now owned by Scottish Widows) has ended up creating other attractive destinations for retailers coming to the city centre. Retail makes up a small proportion of the present scheme, and New Retail Quarter has been rebranded as ‘Heart of the City 2’.
Heart of the City first time round gave Sheffield the Peace Gardens, Millennium Gallery, Winter Gardens, the redevelopment around the Railway Station and Tudor Square – great examples of good design enhancing the city centre amidst other developments that helped pay for them. The quality of design in the present scheme doesn’t fit in with those values and the oversized blocks don’t justify the loss of heritage assets being proposed.
There is an opportunity to enhance this area by restoring more of the heritage assets – restoring the Athol Hotel and not robbing the Laycock Building of the setting it needs. Restoring the historic frontage to Charles Street would add more to the area than a new block, which doesn’t have to be so tall as to completely overwhelm its surroundings and can partly concealed behind the frontage. Retaining the historic frontage to Charles Street would also give some continuity up to the buildings on upper Cambridge Street – the old Henry’s, the Bethel Sunday School and Leah’s Yard.
Please e-mail your own comments (something short in your own words is good) to info@heartofcity2.com or give them online at https://www.heartofcity2.com/public-consultation by Friday 28th September.
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John Biggins
It never ceases to amaze me that SCC are never able to see the wood for the trees, they constantly bang on about ‘Improving areas for the people of Sheffield’ but can’t see the thriving nature of The Devenshire Quarter, if they just supported the traders and public spaces around this area it would be a fantastic space for young & old, eclectic shops, cafes, open spaces for families, what more does a city want ? All too often this council trys to improve by destroying its own heritage, spending millions in attempt to achieve a goal that is already halfway there. I oppose this idea, and think most normal (meaning non speculative) people would too
Joy Broadhead
I would like to ask the council to think very carefully about any proposals to demolish any historic building, both in part or wholly to build something in place of said buildings with something less aesthetically pleasing. Even when trying to compensate with building something similar in shape to what was there before. Leave the buildings well alone and let Sheffield keep it’s historic buildings, thus keeping the character of what Sheffield was built on. If this means that developers can only clean, do repairs and renovate inside the said buildings, again careful not to lose any valuable decoration inside. They were lucky to survive the war, so please let them stay as they are, for the people of Sheffield to enjoy alongside with it’s history. Change is not always a good thing and I wholly object to the proposed ideas which in light are only done as a ‘sweetener’ in hopes of the plans going through without much apparent change? Regenerate by all means but not at the cost of losing Sheffield’ history. Listen to the people what they would like, rather than the rattle of a bank balance.
D C
Need to maintain existing frontages and historic street fronts/scenes rather than demolition and adding new unsympathetic structures in my opinion.
Absolutely couldn’t agree more, we need to retain what’s keft of our historic buildings otherwise it’s just another concrete city
Sarah Kentzer
So many historic buildings in Sheffield have been lost. Other cities seem to preserve the past & still have multi functional, tourist cities. The new buildings look awful!
Heather Mitchell
Our lovely historic buildings need to be kept. These suggested buildings are horrible. At the very least the frontages of the old buildings should be retained. There also seems to be no thought to any green infrastructure – where are the trees? This seems like Sheffield destroying it’s self…again.
Kevin Titterton
Please NO. Enough. We’ve lost so much of of our heritage already. These buildings have character, history and pride. They belong to us all and not just to commercial interest.
The Blitz of the second world war and subsequent 50’s to 70’s demolition of much of our city centre has led to a characterless mirror of many other towns and cities.
We should ALL do our best to hold on, enhance and use what is left.
B. Cooke
How many more historic and craftsmen built buildings are we going to lose in Sheffield? Other cities make use of their beautiful architecture and attract visitors by doing so. Sheffield is a grand old historic city yet it seems it is destined to become another concrete nonentity. Save what we have left, let us have pride in the beauty of past generations.
Vanessa Turnor
Sheffield is losing its identity with a these new, modern structures being built. Many of the existing modern buildings are empty . Do we need any more? And why do they have to be so big? Keeping as much of the original buildings as is possible is visually more interesting than the characterless modern structures. Keep our heritage!
Ewan King
The front ages of these historic buildings should be restored and kept for future generations to appreciate. Build new structures behind (as often happens in London) to provide more usable space. As always, SCC don’t think about the future, just the now!
Cheryl Burfiel
This is shocking – We should be looking at ways to enhance what we already have. We are all ready architecturally way behind other major cities, who have glorious ‘old’ buildings .
Helen McIlroy
Do we actually need all this new office space,,or is our heritage being sacrificed for some speculative fantasy?
SOS! Save Our Sheffield! Do we really need another high rise? What is wrong with SCC that they cannot see the beauty in our historic buildings? Yes, new is good but not at the expense of these beautiful historic buildings.
Jamie Marriott
Footprint of proposed building the same as existing properties but the height of the the new structures is set to dwarf the retained frontage
Very little appeal from the outward appearance of the proposed new structures
The area currently has a strong identity with the current Victorian buildings
There is a case for retaining just the frontage as has been done elsewhere in the city centre , but in those cases eight to ten stories were not added
It certainly poses a striking contrast with added height and angular design
Totally out of character with surrounding properties
It appears to be another way of making as much revenue as possible from the space available nothing wrong with that
Concrete and glass buildings have little appeal ,other than reflecting light to lower areas around the base of the buildings
A case in point is the development behind the winter garden and Mercure hotel
It is part residential ,but has no community spirit
It is part restaurant and leisure orientated ,but the area is bereft of character and soul less outside the business operating times
It is not what is needed in Sheffield city centre
Just because Leeds has a glass non entity tower block and concrete boxes doesn’t mean Sheffield must have it too
jim szemeti
The old buildings should be retained and restored, far more attractive and interesting than more concrete monoliths.
Pauline Chapman
I agree with all of the above comments. In particular Sheffield’s lovely historic buildings need to be kept. These suggested new buildings are horrible. At the very least the frontages of the old buildings should be retained. There also seems to be no thought to any green infrastructure – where are the trees? My first visit to Sheffield as a predominant city with a background relating to the steel industry some thirty five years ago impressed me with the lovely green lined avenues. The trees should be retained or replanted as necessary to replace any under threat.
Jane keats
It can be done ….and very successfully…just look at Leeds they have got it spot on.I went there recently for A shopping trip ( because my city Sheffield cannot provide the fabulous high street and independent shopping experience for me )
It makes me so sad to know that the council just don’t seem to understand how important our heritage is.I ask the councillors responsible for the regeneration of my city to walk around Leeds and see just how to do the job right.Please take pride in Sheffield stop demolishing our beautiful buildings and work with them.
Ron Clayton
Athol Hotel should be conserved-overall plan is is a sop to conservation as it stands -characterless overwhelming buildings.Why does Sheffield persist in demolishing old buildings? Heritage Strategy will come too late the way things are going.
I despair of our Councillors mindset.Talk about sympathetic planning regarding heritage and conservation is simply that -talk.
Alex, Blair Athol Road
Honestly the comments on here really emphasise the backward looking attitudes of too many in this city. The contradictions here are amazing. People moaning Leeds has the high street stores Sheffield does not provide – HOTCII is set to address this regional imbalance, but that’s still not good enough. Do we need office accommodation? Yes, if you have read any of the reports, the city has a limited supply of Grade A office accommodation, again which will be addressed (in part) by this scheme.
Let’s at least save the frontages? The most attractive are being retained and incorporated into new, modern retail space the centre still desperately needs, in spite of the regeneration of the Moor. Yes, we need more high rise and density. This is a city, but doesn’t feel like it when compared to Manchester or Leeds. There needs to be more residential in the city, more office space and attractive modern retail space. HOTCII is a step in the right direction, and will be a catalyst for further development in the city i.e. the long awaited West Bar scheme.
And as for complaining about the trees, this is a mock up of an architectural design for goodness sake. They are already planting the soft landscaping as part of Phase 1 around Grosevenor House. If you had actually looked at the detailed plans on the website, as well as the drawings on the planning application, the provision for trees, planting etc is incorporated as part of the overall public realm design.
I’m all for the retention and re-use of heritage buildings, however, the Athol Hotel is non-descript and is not fit for any modern commercial usage. Supporting the enhancement and future of a building can only be realistic if there is a realistic and viable economic future for them. Advocating preservation simply on the grounds of it’s age just isn’t going to happen, buildings have a limited economic life. These buildings have long ago outlived their usefulness, and need to go. This situation is not unique to Sheffield it happens in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and all the other big cities.
Also these are not big concrete blocks, which makes it sounds like the developments of the 60’s (Castle Market – good riddance). The finishing materials for these proposals are detailed brickwork and terrracotta, to compliment the design of the retained buildings. Yes these buildings are larger, but I really don’t see why this is a problem. This city centre is laughable in it’s density and big city feel compared to our neighbours. This is a city, and I am glad that plans are finally progressing after the unfortunate demise of Sevenstone, which will transform what has been a low rise, derelict no go area of the city for decades now. Sheffield needs to step firmly into the 21st century. This development will bring new life, homes, jobs and shops to the area. If that is at the cost of a crap building like the Athol Hotel, then the benefits far outweigh its loss.
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The Outer Worlds: Sorry, there are no romance options for companions
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but there’s no romance options for companions in The Outer Worlds.
The Outer Worlds has officially launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, which is great news for people seeking a single-player RPG in the vein of Fallout following Bethesda’s poor pricing model for Fallout 76 1st. But, on a downer, unlike Fallout 4 and the vast majority of other role-playing video games there are no romance options for companions in Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds.
Developed by the people responsible for arguably the greatest Fallout game in New Vegas, The Outer Worlds has been dubbed one of the best RPGs of the year and has been praised for its amount of choices.
The game’s character creation suite is stunning, there’s a lot of dialogue options which will be welcome for those who loathed the dialogue wheel in Fallout 4, and it’s just a “a planet-sized helping of fun” as per the Guardian.
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Can you romance companions in The Outer Worlds?
No. You cannot romance any companions in The Outer Worlds.
Be it Parvati, Ellie, Vicar Max or Felix, there are no romance options for any companions in the game. For those who enjoy sweet-talking video game characters (and let’s be honest who doesn’t?) this is no doubt disappointing.
The option to romance specific women, men, aliens and robots in role-playing games such as Mass Effect has always been a highlight of the genre. JRPGs such as Persona 5 even have an entire system dedicated to seizing a video game waifu.
As for why there are no romance options in The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky – a co-creator of the original Fallout games – explained to Polygon back in December 2018 that the omission was a conscious decision.
According to Boyarsky, Obsidian’s decision to have no romance options was decided by wanting players to focus on role-playing their character rather than having their decisions tempered by who they simply want to bed.
In short, they decided to not have any romantic shenanigans so you wouldn’t make decisions based on what you’re feeling down south.
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Year : 2018 | Volume : 23 | Issue : 1 | Page : 40-44
Predicting nurses' Psychological safety based on the forgiveness skill
Abbas Rahmati, Maryam Poormirzaei
Department of Psychology, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Maryam Poormirzaei
Department of Psychology, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman
DOI: 10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_240_16
Background: Forgiveness, as an intentional denial of your right of anger and aversion from a harmful deed, is related to many psychological processes of human which results in more psychological safety for people. The present study aimed to predict the psychological safety of nurses through different dimensions of forgiveness skill. Materials and Methods: This correlational study was conducted on 170 nurses working in Kerman hospitals during 2016–2017 who were selected based on convenience random sampling. Edmondson psychological safety and Thompson Heartland forgiveness scale were used for data collection. Data were analyzed through Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression model. Results: TThe results indicated that psychological safety has a significant relationship with self-forgiveness (p= 0.0001) and other-forgiveness (p= 0.04). Further, only self-forgiveness could significantly predict 0.07 of psychological safety variance (p= 0.003). Conclusions: Self-forgiveness skill can improve the nurses' psychological safety and reduce the harms caused by job pressures by reinforcing positive psychological factors. It is recommended to teach forgiveness skill through holding in-service classes to staff and study the relationship between psychological safety with other social life skills among nurses.
Keywords: Forgiveness, Iran, nurse, safety
Rahmati A, Poormirzaei M. Predicting nurses' Psychological safety based on the forgiveness skill. Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res 2018;23:40-4
Rahmati A, Poormirzaei M. Predicting nurses' Psychological safety based on the forgiveness skill. Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res [serial online] 2018 [cited 2021 Jan 19];23:40-4. Available from: https://www.ijnmrjournal.net/text.asp?2018/23/1/40/220959
Nowadays, due to professionalism and complexity of jobs, many people are working together in a workplace to achieve different organizational goals.[1] As interpersonal conflicts are inevitable at work,[2] an understanding of psychological safety as an influential factor should be emphasized. Psychological safety involves both people's understanding of the consequences of interpersonal conflicts in a special field such as workplace [1] and the way people react to this behavior such as when a person reports his mistake or propose a new idea.[3] Feeling of safety is regarded as a beneficial stimulus which develops a person's talent to cope with and solve problems, and plays a significant role on people's lifestyles in different ways.[4]
The study of the relationship between psychological safety and some other factors such as forgiveness, as an aspect of moral intelligence [5] and a strong factor for predicting job-related consequences,[2] can bring useful and practical advantages. Forgiveness means an awareness of one's own defects, tolerance of others' mistakes,[6] and providing a second chance to the wrongdoer to compensate for the mistake to be able to re-build confidence.[7] It is also defined as an endeavor for preserving love and trust in relationships, terminating harmful bias,[8] abstaining from revenge, and reconciling with the wrongdoer.[9]
People are different in their attitude toward forgiveness and its degree [10] Thompson et al. (2005) explained different kinds of forgiveness including self-forgiveness, other-forgiveness, and uncontrollable situations-forgiveness, which are defined as how a person responds to himself or others when he, others, or the situations cause harm or disappointment, while that action, speech, or behavior has contradicted their belief on the way for behaving.[11]
Some studies claim that people have more psychological safety when they have more forgiveness.[12],[13] Self-forgiveness in men and all other sorts of forgiveness in women predict less risks of suffering from depression. In general, it seems that self-forgiveness plays a more major role in psychological safety than other types of forgiveness.[14],[15] The relationship between psychological safety and self-forgiveness is strong although it may be indirect.[16] It is worth noting that each type of forgiveness differently influences on people's health.[17] For instance, uncontrollable situations-forgiveness plays a more important role than self- and other-forgiveness to predict depression among the elderly.[18]
Nowadays, the relationship between forgiveness as a strong factor to predict job-related consequences and psychological safety as an important part of mental health in workplace has attracted a lot of attention. However, the relationship between the dimensions of forgiveness and psychological safety has not been studied so far. Regarding the main reason for selecting nurses as the sample, we can refer to their psychological safety which is exposed to many damages due to their stressful and hectic jobs. Further, attempts to recognize their psychological safety can play a major role in the promotion of their service.[18] Therefore, the present study aimed to predict the nurses' psychological safety by considering forgiveness dimensions in Kerman hospitals.
This is a correlational study which was conducted on 300 males and females working in Kerman hospitals such as Afzalipour, Shahid Bahonar, Shafa, and Fatemeh Al-Zahra in different shifts during October–December 2016 to January–March 2017. Based on Krejcie-Morgan table, 200 subjects were selected based on convenient random sampling, among whom 170 nurses answered two questionnaires including Edmondson psychological safety scale and Thompson Heartland forgiveness scale. The exclusion criterion was partial response or no response to the questionnaires.
The researchers obtained the approval of Ethics Committee and a written introduction letter from the nursing and midwifery school as well as the needed permissions from the health care centers' authorities. Then, they went to different wards of the hospitals and distributed the questionnaires. In order to observe the principle of equal conditions for the participants, and prevent any bias while answering the questionnaire, the distribution and collection of questionnaires were conducted individually and no further and biased information about the questionnaires was provided. The nurses were also asked to answer the questions based on the first impression and conception they got from each question. A demographic information such as age, gender, marital status, and years of service was obtained at the beginning of the study.
The measures used for the purpose of the present study were standardized questionnaires with acceptable psychometric properties and construct validity. Psychological safety scale was designed by Edmondson (1999) to assess psychological safety in teamwork. The questionnaire includes 7 five-point Likert scale questions (very much = 5, very little = 1). Questions 1, 3, and 5 are scored in reverse, and the score range is between 7 and 35 and higher scores indicate greater psychological security.[20] The questionnaire was translated in Farsi by Shams and Khalijiyan (2014). The construct validity of the questionnaire was confirmed and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (r = 0.80).[13]
Heartland's Forgiveness Scale (HFS) (Thompson et al., 2005) included 18 seven-point Likert scale questions (totally agree = 7, totally disagree = 1). Self-forgiveness (Questions 1 to 6), other-forgiveness (Questions 7 to 12), and uncontrollable situations-forgiveness (Questions 13 to 18) were regarded as three subscales. Scores range was 18–126 and higher scores mean more forgiveness.[11] Ebrahimi et al. (2015) reported the reliability of all scales and subscales through test–retest method, with a 2-week interval as 0.86, 0.74, 0.82, and 0.77, and its convergent validity through life satisfaction scale was reported to be 0.53.[19]
Data were analyzed through Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 20 software based on descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics such as correlation coefficient and multiple regression. Before analyzing data through multiple regression, regression assumptions were checked and the results indicated that the data had a spatial scale, linear relation, normal distribution, and equal variance. In order to predict psychological safety, all dimensions of forgiveness as predictor variables were entered in the model in one step.
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Psychology Department of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran and all ethical considerations including subjects' volunteer participation, obtaining informed consent from all subjects, and confidentiality of data were considered. Ethical code presented to the present study is E. A. 95. 08. 23.
[Table 1] indicates the demographic information about the subjects. Most of the participants are women (N = 135) and the number of men is 35. The subjects' age ranged between 21 and 53 [Mean (M) = 32; Standard deviation (SD) = 7.30]. The majority of sample are married (135 individuals) and have 1–9 years of service (M = 8.82; SD = 6.87). As shown in [Table 2], uncontrollable situations-forgiveness has the highest mean (28.05) compared to other subscales of forgiveness, and the lowest mean belongs to self-forgiveness (26.27). The correlation of all variables with each other is significant except the relationship between uncontrollable situations-forgiveness and psychological safety. [Table 3] shows the results of the multiple regression analysis on the predictor variables. As it is evident, among forgiveness subscales, it is only self-forgiveness that can significantly predict psychological safety (β = 0.30, p = 0.003), by which 0.07 of the psychological safety variance is explained.
Table 1: Demographic characteristics of the sample
Table 2: Mean, standard deviation, and correlation of study variables
Table 3: Standardized coefficient, t-test, significant level, R, and R2 of multiple regression analysis
The present study aimed to predict psychological safety of nurses through forgiveness dimensions. The results indicated that a direct and significant relationship was observed between forgiveness and psychological safety and among the subscales of forgiveness, only self-forgiveness could significantly predict psychological safety.
Therefore, as there are different sources for creating stress in health care jobs and nurses are suffering from a lot of psychological pressures, the identification of influential variables affecting on the psychological safety of the nurses should be prioritized for improving their psychological safety and reducing psychological stresses.[21]
The study on the role of forgiveness on positive and poor mental health has proliferated during the last decade.[14] However, little work has conceptually or empirically focused on the variety of forgiveness. Among the alternative dimensions of forgiveness, forgiveness of self and uncontrollable situations-forgiveness, which were emphasized in the present study, have attracted a lot of attention.[16]
Based on the results, a direct and significant relationship was observed between forgiveness and psychological safety. The results are congruent with those of some other studies (e.g., Miller and Worthington, 2015; Yanchus et al., 2014; Toussaint et al., 2014). Therefore, those who are enjoying more forgiveness, i.e. those who tolerate others' mistakes better,[6] are likely to give the chances of compensation and restoration of trust to others, and enjoy a higher degree of psychological safety.[7]
Only self-forgiveness could significantly predict psychological safety in the present study. The results are in line with those of other studies (e.g., Davis et al., 2015; Toussaint et al., 2016; Webb et al., 2013). In other words, people can experience less negative emotions, shame, and lower mental rumination, and less interpersonal conflicts, through self-forgiveness,[22] which directs their energy toward generating positive thoughts and establishing better relationships with others.[16]
Thus, health care employers such as nurses are constantly exposed to physical and psychological harms. Although physical safety is well ensured in workplaces, little attention has been paid to psychological safety.[23] Regarding the fact that nurses are suffering from a lot of psychological pressure, thanks to their stressful conditions of hospitals such as encountering deaths, patients with special diseases, accidents, etc., the creation of trust and safety among the group's working atmosphere can increase the chances of positive interaction and assisting other members in such a way that they are no longer concerned about their colleagues' reactions, resulting in increase in their psychological safety.[24],[25],[26]
In nurses' workplace, forgiveness not only plays a pivotal role in increasing physical and psychological health but also can improve the nurse–patient relationship and nurses' interaction with doctors.[27],[28] For example, they should be able to forgive when they are offended or treated them with disrespect, which is regarded as one of interprofessional relationship problems among Iranian nurses and physicians,[29] or when they are sued by patients, because doctors have failed to suggest them an effective, fast, and unrealistic treatment.[22] For these reasons, some suggest that the forgiveness should be considered as one of the criteria in international classification of training nurses.[30]
So far, a few studies have investigated the relationship between forgiveness and psychological safety, especially among nurses. The present study focused on this problem although there were some limitations such as the unwillingness of the hospitals' authorities to cooperate with the administrators of the questionnaires, tight schedules of some nurses' to answer the questionnaires, as one of the most important barriers of nursing research in Iran,[31] and nonrandom sampling.
The present study considered the relationship between psychological safety and forgiveness. However, further research is needed to expand our understanding of how psychological safety plays a role in other contexts or situations. Furthermore, it is recommended to teach forgiveness skill through holding in-service classes to staff and conduct other studies to investigate the relationship between psychological safety among nurses and other mental or social life skills so that the empirical and practical knowledge of the field can be increased.
Based on the results of the study, it seems that improving and promoting the forgiveness skill among nurses as a working group of the society who are constantly exposed to mental pressures and job fatigue can lead to the enhancement of health factors such as psychological safety.
The authors feel obliged to thank the respected personnels of Afzalipour, Shahid Bahonar, Shafa, and Fatemeh Al-Zahra hospitals.
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LAZIO ENDS YEAR WITH DEFEAT
Submitted by content on Sun, 01/17/2021 - 13:19
Italian Serie A capital club Lazio would be hoping for a better year in 2021 after they ended 2020 with a defeat. In their last game this year, Lazio were beaten 3-2 by league leaders AC Milan in what was the standout game of week 14 in the Italian Serie A.
Lazio have had a good year in 2020 especially in the first half of the year when they emerged as genuine title threat to league champions Juventus before the enforced suspension of the Italian Serie A league in March due to Covid-19. Lazio were not able to maintain their title momentum when the league resumed in the summer but were still able to finish in the top four which guaranteed their return to Champions League football after several years. Lazio finished in fourth position with 78 points at the end of the season. The capital outfit ended the season five points adrift of Juventus who won the Italian Serie A for the eighth season in a row.
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LAZIO EYEING VICTORY AT BENEVENTO
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Lazio have set their sights on a return to winning ways ahead of their trip to face Benevento in one of the early games of matchday 12 in the Italian topflight this term. Lazio are playing catch up on the other title contenders this season and they have their work cut out if they want to close the gap on the other big teams on the Italian Serie A standings after the shock loss to Hellas Verona at home. Lazio were beaten 2-1 at home by their opponents in one of the most surprising results in the league in recent times.
The away win over Lazio ensured that Hellas Verona move ahead of the capital club on the league standings. They move ahead of Lazio who have already lost four times in just 11 league games this season. Hellas Verona are up to seventh spot from eighth spot with 19 points, while Lazio are in ninth on the log after falling two places below their previous seventh spot due to the away loss at home to Verona.
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LAZIO SET FOR FULL MIDFIELD LINE-UP
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Italian capital giants Lazio are yet to have the full complement of their midfield at any point this season but that could change in the coming days. According to Italian broadcaster Radiosei, Lazio are close to having all their eight midfielders available at the same time. Competition for a place in the Lazio midfield will be stiffer with the latest development as eight players will battle one another for the right to fill just three spots in the starting XI under the stewardship of manager Simone Inzaghi.
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Andreas Pereira, Lucas Leiva, Gonzalo Escalante, Marco Parolo, Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro, Luis Alberto and Daniel Cataldi are the eight midfielders available for selection in the Lazio first team.Serbian international Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro have been ever present in the Lazio midfield this season, while the others have been rotated dependent on injuries and Covid-19. Milinkovic-Savic and Akpro have made nine appearances apiece for the Italian capital club this season
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ROMERO ON THE BRINK
Submitted by content on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 21:07
Manchester United backup goalie Sergio Romero reportedly wants to leave this summer. With Dean Henderson not going out anymore due to his fine performance for Sheffield United last term, there would be three top choices to pick from and Romero doesn’t like his odds.
Per the report, following the return of Dean Henderson from Sheffield United, Romero will go further down the pecking order. Henderson is expected to be the no 2 behind David De Gea and Henderson has also been given the assurance that he will be given a fair chance to fight for the number 1 shirt with De Gea. Romero will not leave for free as the Red Devils are searching for between £8-10 million for his services.
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GERMAN CLUBS EYE ARSENAL YOUNGSTER
Submitted by content on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 14:38
Arsenal defender Konstantinos Mavropanos is on the radar of Bundesliga top clubs. Mavropanos, 22, is currently on-loan at Nuremberg and his impressive form this season has caught the eye of several clubs in Germany.
According to a report from Goal, five Bundesliga clubs have made contact with the players' representatives regarding a potential summer transfer. The defender has been able to adapt to German football displaying a mix of pace and quality on the ball.
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DE GEA MIGHT LOSE NUMBER ONE SPOT
David de Gea was globally considered as the best shot stopper in the world, but the last 18 months have been a very testing and enduring one for the Manchester United number one. He has suffered a massive dip in form, costing his team precious points. The latest among his poor displays was his howler against Everton.
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CIRO IMMOBILE FIRING LAZIO TO SERIE A CHALLENGE
Submitted by content on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 17:09
Ciro Immobile has been in the form of his life in the 2019-2020 season. The Lazio attacker has enjoyed a considerable level of consistency in front of goal, helping his side to mount a serious challenge against Inter Milan and perennial champions Juventus.
His agent as labelled him the best striker in Europe after the Italian matched a 61-year-old record in Italy's top flight. He has registered 25 goals in the first 21 league games. A streak that has not been met for over six decades.
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Alberto Aquilani on his career
Former Liverpool player Alberto Aquilani has revealed that he never really wanted to play for Liverpool and that he was more interested in staying in Italy. Alberto Aquilani is considered as one of the worst Liverpool signings under Rafael Benitez after his £17.1m move in 2009 from Roma.
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Points Shared by Roma and Lazio in a Fantastic Derby in Rome
Spectators saw an energetic Rome derby game when Lazio and Roma earned the same point from it. The SS Lazio earned a 1-1 draw with the goal from Luis Alberto in the second half of the match against AS Roma. The later was ahead because of the penalty hit by Aleksandar Kolarov at the 17th minute, though it seemed at first that Lazio will be able to make it ahead as they hit the post three times before Roma penalty.
The side consisting Simone Inzaghi looked more confident, leveled, and threatening after Alberto’s strike at the beginning of each hour during the match. But their denial came when Marco Parolo, who played as a substitute, hit the crossbar later. Just before Manuel Lazzari thought that he had scored the winning goal, during the injury time, it was declared as offside and was ruled out in the build-up.
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Lazio Gearing up for New Season
Lazio has announced that they have extended the contract of the manager Simone Inzaghi. The Italian manager will be available for the club till June 2021 and will work for them and guide players. He was with the club for over 20 years and has created legends for Lazio. According to Igli Tare, the sporting director of Lazio, he has some unfinished business left with Lazio and will be available to them till 2021.
Now, the club is gearing up to add some new names in the squad after the extension of their coach. The first name in the list is Manuel Lazzari of Spal, who is also a target for Inter and Napoli. Also, the name of Anderlecht midfielder Peter Zulj has come up for Lazio. He is an Austrian midfielder who plays for Belgian Pro League club Anderlecht. He is valued at €5 million and is believed to get signed by Igli Tare, the sporting director of Lazio who has also signed Milinkovic-Savic from Belgium. Also, the name Daniel James came up for Lazio who was being picked by the club but he signed a deal of €21 million with Manchester United of.
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What's the design strategy behind adidas' gorgeous GamePlan A? Senior designer Anastasia Lyutikova answers our questions.
I’ve looked at a lot of content hubs this year. Dozens.
I’ve seen awful ones. I’ve also seen great ones, with much to admire and study. But when I chanced across adidas’ GamePlan A, I fell in love.
It’s modern. It’s smart. It has real voices, real ideas. It’s clean and full of white space, yet bursting with stuff you want to spend time with: long-form articles, grabby lists, pull quotes, videos and user-generated content. The hub has big photography and bold headlines. It tallies social shares for peer validation. The whole experience feels useful, smart, flexible—and alive.
Well done, adidas.
In reality, of course, it surely wasn’t effortless. It takes a lot of work to make something seem so simple.
Adidas launched GamePlan A in 2016 to build a global community of like-minded people who carry their active attitudes into their work and lives. The site features content in four pillars—Mindset, Lifestyle, Ideas and Career—and its tagline pumps its fist in the air to announce the start of a movement: “We are creators, tackling work life with an athlete’s heart.”
My go-to sport is Pilates, and although I don’t necessarily tackle work with an athlete’s heart, GamePlan A is so well done, I want in.
Inspiring “user interaction” is exactly what lead designer Anastasia Lyutikova was going for when she designed this game-changing digital experience, she told me in a conversation from Germany. Lyutikova is senior art director at Scholz & Volkmer, a creative agency for digital brand management with offices in Wiesbaden and Berlin. Its award-winning clients include Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola and, of course, adidas.
Here are highlights from my back-and-forth with Lyutikova:
When you started thinking about GamePlan A, what were your goals for its design strategy? What did you want users to feel, learn and do after visiting it?
Our goal was to inspire all those users with an athlete’s heart, which is adidas’ strategy for GamePlan A, and to make them feel actively involved. We were inspired by the motto “Be a playmaker and not a spectator.” The user should feel like part of the community. We wanted to combine user interaction with the design experience.
What ideas, colors and philosophies inspired your design strategy?
It was important for us to develop an independent design language that directly addresses the target group: people who are constantly on the move, want to develop professionally and privately, and stay in balance. The word “dynamics” guided our design and is reflected in our use of the color red and different animation forms. These striking elements reflect the strong and sporty energy and contrast with the clear, flat design.
What do you think are do's and don'ts of the best digital magazine design experiences?
Do's:
The user—not the design—is the focus. The designer always has to bear in mind the needs of the target group when developing. Whether the platform should be noisy or quiet depends on the user, not the designer.
Be consistent. Create stand-alone design guidelines, which can be used as a guide throughout the entire website and quickly lead the user to the content. A clear structured design language greatly supports user guidance.
The first impression counts. The more tangible the content and the quicker the user arrives at the content, the longer they are busy with it. The user sees the targeted content through clear design.
Design that fails to communicate with the target group. One can have good design that does not fit the user.
Overloading the web page with too many different design elements leads to confusion.
Not having clear user guidance. Nothing is worse than a frustrated user who doesn’t understand the site and leaves immediately.
Do you think of GamePlan A as a digital magazine, a digital content hub or something else entirely?
It is a symbiosis of both. We have developed a platform that presents exciting and relevant content in the form of a digital magazine. The design and content work together and complement each other. Large-scale images and a diverse gallery, typographic elements, and a one-page layout provide the optimum scope for good storytelling.
How is digital magazine design more or less challenging than print magazine design?
The challenge in web design is the permanent connection between medium and user and the ever-evolving digital formats. It requires high flexibility, fast adaptation of new forms of interaction and a constant “up-to-date” design concept. Static media such as magazines and books have a long history, while the digital arena is still in the beginning stages. It requires a great deal of empathy to create intuitive and lively user environments and interfaces.
To enable a holistic communication between the reader and the platform, other media was developed for the GamePlan A program, including, among other things, a dedicated print edition.
The site prioritizes mobile, social, curated and user-generated content. How do you optimize these experiences with your design decisions?
Curated content is very important for GamePlan A. We simply want to provide the target group with the most complete and relevant content possible. This includes curated content from other external websites.
Social and UGC can be viewed together in a certain way. A major goal of GamePlan A (or the idea behind it) is to form a community. This is where commitment to social and UG content plays a significant role. Therefore, the site is designed to make it easy for the user to participate no matter whether sharing content (via social media), subscribing to updates (or, in the future, a more content-driven newsletter) or requesting something (link, quote, topic).
Equally important is a prominent comment function, for example the “most discussed articles.” Users, or rather team members, who participate will be featured to further promote the community's thoughts and to encourage them to participate and to help shape it ... for this, GamePlan A would like to invite everyone.
What's surprised you most about designing GamePlan A?
We were lucky to be relatively quick to agree on what we were saying with the site and what goals we should pursue, so I quickly had a clear look and feel as a designer. We owe this quick response to a good cooperation with the adidas team and the editorial staff. We are constantly trying to continue working on GamePlan A and learning from the users to further improve the platform.
What are your other favorite digital magazines out there and why?
Kinfolk and Yatzer. They convince with a clear, minimalist design and well-presented content. You can feel in every story the attention to detail, whether it is about content or design competence. I think the magazine is best managed to make the reader a user.
Hopes&Fears. It has well-designed content, for those who read a lot, with a simple structure and the focus on good user guidance. Everything an online magazine needs.
Where do you think digital content hubs/digital magazines are going?
Micro-Interaction: The technology is evolving ever further so that a more complex interaction design on the web is no longer the focus, and will continue to spread even further in the near future. (Micro-interactions inform the user what is happening, what has happened and what will happen.)
Storytelling: Hero images with parallax effects, different modes of the multimedia representation, whether video or animated GIF, basically everything a story tells is fully on trend. It is still supported with the scrolling trend so that the user always remains in the read-flow.
Individuality: is very important in an internet landscape where many websites are already very similar to WordPress. Illustrations, authentic photos and self-created typography give the web pages a personal touch.
Thank you, Anastasia. Your GamePlan A is truly game-changing.
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Black holes are out of sight? RIP #StephenHawking
March 14, 2018 by Syed Zainul Haque under General1,506 views
I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Black holes are out of sight? RIP #StephenHawking and is located at https://www.indusnet.co.in/black-holes-sight/.
Yes! One of the greatest living scientists, the world’s most acclaimed cosmologists, has died at his home in Cambridge today morning.
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” – The understanding of the universe is special, really more special to the extraordinary man.
A true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter, his ability to explain complex theories in lucid language made science accessible to everyone and turned his book A Brief History of Time a bestseller, sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
The most famous work of the protagonist of The Theory of Everything included a mathematical model for Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and the nature of the universe such as The Big Bang and Black Holes.
As his death has left ‘a big black hole’ in the hearts of the people all over the world, here are some glimpses of tributes which are blowing social media like a cyclone.
As sad as the loss Stephen Hawking is I am so glad he got to see and be part of so much of our growth. Going to science extra hard tomorrow.
— Bobak Ferdowsi (@tweetsoutloud) March 14, 2018
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." – Stephen Hawking. RIP.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) March 14, 2018
A star just went out in the cosmos. We have lost an amazing human being. Stephen Hawking fought and tamed the cosmos bravely for 76 years and taught us all something importantabout what it truly means to celebrate about being human. I will miss him.
— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) March 14, 2018
The world has lost a beautiful mind and a brilliant scientist. RIP Stephen Hawking
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 14, 2018
We lost a great one today. Stephen Hawking will be remembered for his incredible contributions to science – making complex theories and concepts more accessible to the masses. He’ll also be remembered for his spirit and unbounded pursuit to gain a complet…https://t.co/z1du859Gy2
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) March 14, 2018
Remembering Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist and ambassador of science. His theories unlocked a universe of possibilities that we & the world are exploring. May you keep flying like superman in microgravity, as you said to astronauts on @Space_Station in 2014 pic.twitter.com/FeR4fd2zZ5
— NASA (@NASA) March 14, 2018
His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018. pic.twitter.com/nAanMySqkt
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2018
As the great scientist has passed away, we are really curious to witness whether his prediction on AI – “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race” will become a reality in future or not.
Let us not forget his efforts of making this world a better place. As he once said, “It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.” True to this note, whose insights enriched the modern cosmology and inspired millions, we salute one of the greatest ambassadors of science and technology. “We will miss him forever.”
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Contaminated Drinking Sources Puts Tsunami Survivors at Grave Risk of Disease
NEW YORK -- UNICEF warned that without immediate, wide-scale action to provide safe water in the communities hit by Sundays massive ocean flooding, millions of people will be at grave risk of waterborne disease.
Standing water can be just as deadly as moving water, UNICEF executive director Carol Bellamy said Tuesday. The floods have contaminated the water systems, leaving people with little choice but to use unclean surface water. Under these conditions people will be hard put to protect themselves from cholera, diarrhea and other deadly diseases.
Children, who make up at least one-third of the overall population in the worst-affected countries, are particularly vulnerable to waterborne diseases.
Hundreds of thousands of children who survived the massive waves that destroyed their communities now risk getting seriously ill from something as simple as taking a drink of water, Bellamy said.
Securing safe water supplies and educating people about water and sanitation hygiene is a major component of all of UNICEFs tsunami relief efforts, now underway in the hardest-hit countries, Bellamy said.
Water purification tablets and oral rehydration salts to combat diarrhea were included in the first deliveries UNICEF made to hard-hit areas of Sri Lanka on Tuesday. They also make up the bulk of two separate UNICEF relief flights headed for Sri Lanka. A 45-ton shipment from UNICEFs global supply center in Copenhagen is carrying primarily water-related supplies but also includes emergency health kits, school supplies and recreation kits for children; this flight will land early Thursday. A shipment of 20 tons of tarpaulins and tents from Belgium is due to arrive in Sri Lanka late Wednesday.
In India, UNICEF has delivered an initial 50 water tanks to Kanchipuram in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where the government has set up 200 relief sites in seven affected districts. Under the leadership of state and national authorities, UNICEF expects Wednesday to provide southern districts with hundreds of thousands of water purification tablets, an additional 1,550 community water tanks (500 liters each), 200,000 sachets of oral rehydration salts, medical supplies sufficient to serve 30 health centers, and 30,000 blankets.
We dont know how many people might die in the next days and weeks from disease caused primarily by bad water and sanitation conditions, Bellamy said. But without doubt we know people will fall to disease. Thats why it is essential that the relief campaign be focused on providing safe water right now.
UNICEF assessment and relief efforts continue throughout the tsunami-affected region:
In Thailand, UNICEF is assessing both immediate and long-term needs in the affected areas, which in addition to the tourist spots Pukhet and Krabi also include fishing communities along other areas of the coast which were completely destroyed. UNICEF is focusing on providing water, sanitation facilities and food for those in the affected areas, especially children, as well as addressing the longer-term needs for education, psychological support and replacing lost livelihood of entire communities.
In Indonesia, some 500,000 people in the Aceh province have been directly affected, particularly in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where houses have been destroyed and water, power and telecommunications disrupted. All but two of Banda Acehs ambulances were destroyed. UNICEF is sending emergency health kits to help 200,000 people for two weeks.
In Somalia, where hundreds of families have been left without shelter, food and clean drinking water, a UNICEF team assessing the affected areas with local authorities is delivering immediate assistance of oral rehydration salts, chlorine powder and essential drugs while arranging for increased supplies as needed. In addition to providing clean water and sanitation facilities, UNICEF will focus on emergency health care, nutritional needs, family relief kits and temporary shelters for the affected families.
Source: Fund for UNICEF
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Researchers Unravel Secrets of Parasites' Replication
A group of diseases that kill millions of people each year cant be touched by antibiotics, and some treatment is so harsh the patient cant survive it. Theyre caused by parasites, and for decades researchers have searched for a magic bullet to kill them without harming the patient. Now, a team of microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has made an advance that could one day lead to a new weapon for fighting parasitic diseases such as African sleeping sickness, chagas disease and leishmaniasis.
In the cover article of the current issue of Eukaryotic Cell, parasitologists Michele Klingbeil, doctoral candidate Jeniffer Concepción-Acevedo and colleagues report the first detailed characterization of the way key proteins in the model parasite Trypanosoma brucei organize to replicate its mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Understanding this spatial and temporal coordination could mean a foot in the door to launch new attacks on one of the parasites essential cell processes, Klingbeil says.
She adds, Parasites such as T. brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, are not straightforward to treat because theyre too much like our own cells. Antibiotics are ineffective, so we treat them as invaders, with toxic chemicals. We are trying to find their weaknesses so we can exploit those and eventually develop a very selective, effective and acceptable treatment.
Advances have not come easily, in part because these parasites have the most complex mitochondrial genome structure in nature, say Klingbeil and Concepción-Acevedo, the lead researcher on the project. To tackle it, theyve focused on the trypanosome parasites extremely complex method of mtDNA replication, which involves kinetoplast DNA or kDNA. Its core components are very unlike DNA replication in animals and human hosts, Klingbeil says, so if we can inhibit the replication process and take away the kDNA, the parasites will die. Thats one way we might be able to kill them.
Trypanosomes kDNA is found as a nucleoid in the mitochondrion, where it holds many copies of catenated or networked minicircles and maxicircles that look like medieval chain mail under the microscope. These molecules pass information on to daughter cells via DNA polymerases whose job it is to copy all circles in the network. Trypanosomes have six mtDNA polymerases, while humans have just one. Â
To figure out how these trypanosomal polymerases know when to initiate DNA replication, Concepción-Acevedo set up immunofluorescence experiments focused on tracking a particular one, known as mtDNA polymerase ID (POLID). By fluorescent labeling the POLID protein and tracking it over space and time, Concepción-Acevedo quantified it and clarified its relationship to the overall replication process for the first time in a very discrete time window. The approach immediately paid off.
Klingbeil says, As soon as Jeny began looking more closely at POLID localization she discovered a novel mechanism for how this protein participates in kDNA replication. In response to kDNA changes during the replication cycle, POLID was dynamically redistributing, or changing location, from the mitochondrial matrix to concentrated foci around the kDNA, and co-localizing with replicating kDNA molecules.
This had been hypothesized, but never seen before, Klingbeil explains. It was amazing to witness. We visualized a mitochondrial replication protein undergoing dynamic localization for the first time, and linked it to DNA synthesis. No one had ever been able to do that in any mitochondrial DNA replication system before.
This important discovery explains how POLID engages in kDNA replication and opens up new avenues to study and intervene in mitochondrial protein dynamics, say the two parasitologists. Their ultimate success would be to find a chemical to inhibit POLID from carrying out its role during replication and target all parasites with kDNA structures.
This work was funded by the National Institutes of Healths National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Support for Concepción-Acevedo also came from NSFs Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program.
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Why detoxes are terrible for you, according to dietitians
Ava English
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Detoxes don't work because your kidneys, liver, and GI tract already cleanse the body of toxins and harmful substances.
Going on a detox increases your risk of an electrolyte imbalance, spikes your blood sugar, and can cause long-term damage to your colon.
A healthier alternative to detoxes is eating a diet full of whole, nutritious foods.
Visit Insider's Health Reference library for more advice.
Detoxes are purported to be a quick-fix after you've overindulged or a way to jumpstart your weight loss journey. However, going on a detox cleanse may not always be the best decision for your health — and could actually harm it.
Here's what you need to know about why detoxes don't work and the risks they pose to your health.
What is a detox?
Detox, in the original sense of the word, is the medical practice of eliminating toxic chemicals like drugs and alcohol from the body.
Currently, the only medically recommended and supervised detox is chelation. Chelation binds to a toxin, like lead, which allows the body to excrete it through urination.
"You need this kind of detox when the body has a build-up of something like lead, and the blood is filtering poison throughout your body," says Denise DelPrincipe, MS, RDN, LD, a registered dietitian based in Midland, Texas.
A more recent and trendy use of the word "detox" or "cleanse" refers to eliminating toxins from the body that can build up from unhealthy lifestyle habits, like drinking alcohol or eating sweets.
These trendy detoxes claim to help:
Muscle soreness or fatigue
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate detoxes, meaning the ingredients have not been tested to make sure they are safe to consume.
Common types of detoxes
There are many different types of detoxes, each of which promotes specific health claims:
Fasting: This includes abstaining from eating for long periods of time. The idea behind this type of detox is that you "take a break" from consuming foods that may cause toxins to build up in your body.
All liquid diets: These detoxes usually consist of feeding yourself with only liquids or specific juices for a period of time. The motive behind this type of cleanse is usually driven by weight loss.
Over-exercising or frequenting the sauna: Have you ever heard the phrase "sweat it out"? Over-exercising or using a sauna to induce excessive sweating is one way that people try to rid their bodies of unwanted toxins.
Using laxatives: People may use laxatives to try to "empty themselves" and cleanse their colons.
Mainstream detoxes don't work
Currently, no research has proven trendy detoxes or cleanses to be effective.
"Beyond meeting your basic daily needs of fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain, there isn't really any extra benefit to what a detox diet could do," says McKenzie Caldwell, MPH, RDN, a dietitian based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In fact, your body has its own detoxification system, which involves several organs to help flush out toxins. These include:
Gastrointestinal tract, which excretes waste products.
Liver, which is your primary filtration system that helps process and excretes waste from the body.
Kidneys, which excrete extra fluids that are removed through the urine.
Although some people may lose weight initially on a detox, this weight loss usually isn't sustained because it's not targeting the root of the problem, which is often unhealthy diets.
Jason McKnight, MD, a clinical assistant professor in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University says that oftentimes, people with generally unhealthy diets may incorporate more vegetables into their diet and drink more water during their detox which may cause initial weight loss.
"A week or so later when you go back to your old eating habits, you're just going to re-accumulate that fluid and gain that weight back pretty quickly," he says.
McKnight says a good rule of thumb when it comes to weight loss is weight that is rapidly lost, is rapidly gained back and weight that is more slowly and sustainably lost is weight usually kept off.
Risks of detoxes
"Anytime you throw your body into these random bursts of shocks to the system, there can be long-term effects," says McKnight.
Here are some of the health risks associated with detoxes:
Severe calorie restriction can cause a cascade of negative health effects
On average, adult men should consume between 2,000 and 3,000 calories whereas women should eat between 1,600 and 2,400. Many all-liquid or fasting detoxes drastically reduce caloric intake.
Why electrolytes are important — and when you may need them the most
When you are at a calorie deficit for a long period of time you can compromise bone health. It can also disrupt electrolyte balance, which ultimately helps muscles, like your heart, to contract.
"The heart beats because of an electrolyte balance, namely between potassium and sodium. When that's disrupted, problems can happen," like heart problems such as tachycardia, Delprincipe says.
While this may not be a problem when doing short-term detoxes, it can be if you find yourself repeatedly going on a cleanse multiple times a year.
Overusing laxatives can harm your colon
Overusing laxatives can trigger inflammation that disrupts the natural function of the colon, which absorbs water and breaks down food.
"From a microscopic and cellular level, we can actually see changes inside the colon of people that take laxatives on a daily basis to clean themselves out," says Mcknight.
Overusing laxatives can also cause colon infections, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and may increase your risk of colon cancer.
Additionally, people that abuse stimulant laxatives — which induce bowel movements by stimulating intestinal contractions — can become dependent on them. "If they quit taking it, their gut function slows down and then they may not be able to have bowel movements regularly," says McKnight.
Overusing laxatives can also be a sign of an eating disorder like bulimia. If you or someone you love may be dealing with an eating disorder, reach out to a doctor or contact a helpline.
Juice cleanses spike blood sugar
If you are on a juice cleanse, you are not consuming solid, nutrient-dense foods, which means your body has no long-term forms of energy. Rather, juices cause blood sugar levels to spike for a brief period of time before dropping.
These swings in blood sugar can be particularly dangerous if you have diabetes or a heart or liver problem.
Insider's takeaway
Detoxes claim to provide users with many health benefits like weight loss and clearing the body of toxins. However, at most, they may offer short term, unsustainable weight loss and can end up causing serious health issues like colon infections. Fad diets are hardly ever a way to maintain weight loss or boost your overall health.
"An overall better recommendation would be just to adopt a healthier lifestyle by eating more fruits, vegetables, and fiber and not putting substances into your body that can be viewed as toxic," says McKnight.
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IP200 : INTEGRITY PROFILE
The IP200 is the Flagship of the dedicated Integrity tests that consists of 10 sub-structures of which each has 5 measuring areas. It is a very comprehensive, diagnostic and developmental instrument that provides the user with more than 60 scales to measure the complex concept of Integrity with, to provide feedback to testees, to make predictions on future behaviour and/or develop Integrity on an individualistic or corporate basis. It consists of 200 test-items, declares approximately 88% of the total variance and takes approximately an hour to administer and boasts Lie and Consistency as well as Unnatural Exaggeration factors. The test can either be completed in using the ‘pencil-and-paper’ or ‘on-screen’ approach, the scoring is completely computerised and the user has the choice to use an ‘on-line’ approach in the entire administrative process. The latter is applicable to all the INTEG-tests.
Measuring Areas – Scales: Ten Substructures of Integrity:
Attitudes – Integrity Constraining
Functional vs. Dysfunctional Behaviour
Manipulative Abuse of Power – Non
Transformation Commitment & Man Integrity
Monitor, Lie, Consistency & Exaggeration
Purpose: Comprehensive Integrity Measure in the World of Work.
Five Measuring Areas (each of the ten Substructures consists of):
Rolling out the Culture of Integrity
Investigative Orientation
Career Planning & Development
(A Training Module is Registered with the Service SETA in each Of the 10 Areas to Develop Integrity).
PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES
Reliability: Ranging from 0.84 to 0.92 (Significant.)
Validity: Ranging from 0.42 to 0.66 (Significant.)
Fairness (Norming Process): “Although the Standard Error of the Main and the Standard Error of Measurement were both calculated in all four variances of the above demographics, no significant results were obtained” and “The T-test to establish whether significant statistical differences exist, render ‘no significant differences’ at the lowest level – i.e. 0.001”.
Readability & Ease of Comprehension: “A maximum of sixth grade of the Fry Readability Graph was never exceeded” There is also no time restriction applicable to the completion of the test and there is always a trained ‘administrator’ available to allow testees to clear up any doubts they may have regarding the meaning of words or sentences.
The Seven Actions regarding ‘Readability’ (described earlier in this paper), were/are applied in the IP200.
GENERAL USE AND DECISION-MAKING RULES
The IP200 can be used at a grade 8 schooling level.
Consider a score of below a 6-sten on the Lie-Detector scale as a knock-out score.
The IP200 must be interpreted by a registered psychologist.
If the IP200 is interpreted for the first time, adhere to the so-called ‘5-Step Interpretation Process’.
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Windows Phone Jobs in Gloucestershire
The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Windows Phone skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Phone over the 6 months to 19 January 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
South West > Gloucestershire
Rank 83 138 106
Rank change year-on-year +55 -32 -
Permanent jobs citing Windows Phone 1 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.15% 0.060% 0.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.47% 0.20% 2.16%
Median annual salary - - £50,000
South West median annual salary - £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +66.67%
Windows Phone is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 214 502 370
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 31.47% 29.99% 25.77%
Number of salaries quoted 160 423 265
Median salary % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +5.88%
South West median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire
Job postings citing Windows Phone as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Phone in Gloucestershire.
Job Locations in Gloucestershire
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Phone within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 19 January 2021. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
Cheltenham - 1 - -
Top 23 Co-occurring IT Skills in Gloucestershire
For the 6 months to 19 January 2021, IT jobs citing Windows Phone also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucestershire region with a requirement for Windows Phone.
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SVG
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Graceful Degradation
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Co-occurring IT Skills in Gloucestershire by Category
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
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Britons. Join Your Country's Army!
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Lacoste’s New Crocodile: Felipe Oliveira Baptista
PORTRAIT BY FUJI SHOJII
Portuguese designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista is skyrocketing through French fashion. After winning the prestigious Hyères festival, and Andam awards (headed by Carine Roitfeld herself), he launched his own label in 2003, today on the offical Haute Couture calendar during Paris Fashion Week. Last week, he was crowned creative director of Lacoste, succeeding Christophe Lemaire, who has gone off to Hermès. He is getting ready to infuse his playful, androgynous lines into the sportswear brand, and turn the old-school crocodile n’ polo on its head. Interview met up with him in Paris after his first week at his new office, and chatted about his past, present, and future in fashion.
ALICE PFEIFFER: How did you get into fashion?
FELIPE OLIVEIRA BAPTISTA: It was slightly accidental. I went to London and was interested in fashion, but also photography and graphic design. Today, I still like everything that goes around fashion. Later on, I wounded up working for Max Mara, Christophe Lemaire, and Cerruti.
PFEIFFER: So no tales of heroic struggle, then?
BAPTISTA Well, like everyone, the reality of fashion can be very harsh, very difficult, especially the first three or four years, but at the same time it’s an incredible drive. But I’m lucky to work with my wife, who does all the management part, so that keeps me sane.
BAPTISTA’S LINE, FALL 2011
PFEIFFER: In 2003, you launched your own label. Who was the Oliveira woman you were hoping to create?
BAPTISTA: I don’t really like the idea of putting “a woman” on a pedestal. This wasn’t a piece of marketing. The starting point should be beauty and a story. You put things together, you start making things and just hope people like them.
PFEIFFER: And can you tell us about your very first collection?
BAPTISTA: Yes, it was after I won the Hyères festival. Almost a year and half had passed, and this was an incredibly frustrating period. I was realizing how hard it was to come out of the water. So the first collection was called “Stripes on Strike,” the idea of a stripe that you have to throw off track. The stripe was the guiding thread of the story. It was a playful collection.
PFEIFFER: And you have aslo worked on street projects, such as collaborations with Nike and UniQlo. Why was this appealing to you?
BAPTISTA: UniQlo was extremely interesting. It was a capsule collection, so I created a micro wardrobe. The cuts, the patterns were mine but designed for the masses, which is something I love. I like to know thousands of people are wearing my designs, not just 40 of them. As for Nike, it was great because they gave me carte blanche, it was an artistic creation. I was just totally free. It’s important to be able to adapt. I do consulting on the side, and I find it extremely enriching to be able to understand different spheres of the industry.
PFEIFFER: Today, you are now creative director for Lacoste. What will be the relationship between your own designs and the Lacoste work? A dialogue, or a radical opposite, like, say, Marc Jacobs vs. Louis Vuitton?
BAPTISTA: There will be a certain dialogue, but its altogether a different approach, for the simple reason that Lacoste isn’t an haute couture house. There’s no competiton between the two, Lacoste is about functional clothing. But inevitably, some similar notions will be present in both: the idea of real clothes, of “neo-androgyny.”
PFEIFFER: This means you will now be showing at New York Fashion Week–are you apprehensive about the American public?
BAPTISTA: The US is Lacoste’s number one market, and it’s very exciting to experience a new fashion week. Of course, I have to do my homework, and understand what the Lacoste reality is to Americans.
PFEIFFER: But you will continue to live in Paris for now?
BAPTISTA: Yes, for now I will. I now have two kids who are schooled here.
PFEIFFER: You are, like your predecessor at Lacoste Christophe Lemaire, one of the few straight designers. May we ask what this feels like?
BAPTISTA: Mmm…like a UFO? People looked at me very weirdly at the beginning, especially when I introduced my wife. It’s true, there are few straight men in here. I think it is because there is such a prejudice, that boys just don’t consider fashion studies as an option.
PFEIFFER: And what are you working on for 2011?
BAPTISTA: I’m working on a small capsule collection for my label, called FOB. It will be like a test, launched summer 2011, which will first be sold in showrooms. It will be a tad cheaper. And for the rest: We’ll see!
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Is India LGBTQIA+ friendly?
Discretion is still advised for LGBTQIA+ travellers in India, as it is for couples of any sexual orientation, as public displays of affection are frowned upon in India. Though homosexuality was decriminalised in 2009, it was again made illegal in 2013, then decriminalised once more in 2018.
Despite this decriminalisation, the government is relatively silent when it comes to LGBTQIA+ issues. Though transgendered people did receive legal recognition as a third gender in 2014, same-sex marriage is illegal, as is adoption, and discrimination is still rife at all levels of society.
Because of societal attitudes towards same-sex relations, the queer scenes in India are generally found in big cities like Mumbai and Delhi, and even these are quite discreet in comparison to other nations. Still, LGBTQIA+ bars and clubs can be found in places like Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Goa to name a few.
For more detailed and up-to-date advice, we recommend visiting Equaldex or ILGA before you travel.
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Brooks Best in Class C
April 29th, 2012 by iRacingGuest
Side by side racing in the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series is a common occurance.
The season long battle between Justin Brooks and Heath Hindman for the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS) crown came down the final two weeks of the season. Hundreds of sim racers came out to test their skills at the Darlington Raceway and Kentucky Speedway in the final two rounds, but when the final laps were ran and the checkered flag fell on 2012 Season One, it was Brooks who would ultimately edge out Hindman for the prestigious title.
Week Eleven of the series took the Trucks to the Darlington Raceway where Phil Juhring took the top spot over 400 others who took a green flag at the track “Too Tough to Tame.” Juhring’s big win of the week came during a 2801 sof race on April 10th in which he led all but two laps in the race en route to the win over Michael Simons II, Sam Edwards, Eric Purcell2 and Greg McKinney. Juhring started the 90-lap race from the pole and had to outlast four cautions to punch his ticket to victory lane. The top two in this race were awarded with the top two spots of the week with Juhring and Simons II taking 175 and 163 points away from the race, respectively.
Also on the podium for the week at Darlington was Canadian Jordan Westfall. Westfall would wind up in victory lane on April 11th during a 2582 sof race in which he led 36 laps, including the most important one, ahead of Craig Jernigan, Shelvin Johnson, Wes Weidman and Gary Fridinger. Johnson started from the pole and led 54 laps before surrendering the lead to Westfall, who started third on the grid. For the victory, Westfall was credited with 159 points.
Patrick Smart made the most starts of the week at Darlington, taking 11 green flags over the seven day span. David Krikorian and Chad Pruitt each won four times on the week, the most of any others who were in the search for the checkers at “the Lady in Black.” Jukka Savolainen was the quickest in qualifying, putting in a time of 28.246 seconds around Darlington. Krikorian, Eric Hoggarth, Brooks and Jason Karlavige completed the top five in single truck qualifying. The top Time Trial honor went to Dustin Bartee on Week Eleven, over Manuel Bubbers, Matthew Shanks, Roger Stanley Jr and Earl Landry.
The final round of the season took the NiCCS drivers to the Kentucky Speedway. Pruitt continued his winning ways from Darlington and followed it up with a big win at Kentucky to capture the weekly victory during Week Twelve. His win, which tipped the scales at 3138 sof, saw Pruitt lead exactly half of the 90 laps in the race after starting from the inside of Row Three. In fact, five of the 18 drivers who started the race led at least one lap in the event. Finishing second in the race was McKinney, followed by Fridinger, Tony Monge and Dominic Krischke. Michael Tasillo, who started on the pole and led a dozen laps of the 90 completed would finish 12th. Pruitt was awarded with 197 points for his win.
Casey Malone was second for the week at Kentucky after a win on April 22nd in a 3094 sof race. Malone started tenth and led ten laps en route to the win over Gene Miller2, Edward Burch Jr, Joey Israelson and Billy Weeks. Marko Viitanen led over half (48) of the laps but would cross the line in seventh, faring better than pole sitter Patrick Davis, who finished 15th in the event. Three cautions slowed the event while the lead was exchanged eight times amongst seven drivers. Malone pocketed 194 points for the win.
Rounding out the podium at Kentucky was NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship driver Pat Baldwin. The 3120 sof affair on April 21st which saw Baldwin pull into victory lane featured two cautions and saw the winner lead 50 laps after starting in the 11th spot. Following Baldwin to the line was Aaron Lovell, followed by Chris E Pence, Edward Szigeti and Sean Hall. Davis once again found himself on the pole but would up coming home ninth in the race. Baldwin captured 194 points in his victory at Kentucky.
Maxx Harris closed off the season by making 26 starts in the final week of 2012 Season One while Rob Miles put 13 wins up on the board, the only driver to hit a double digit win total at Kentucky. Savolainen once again flexed his muscle in qualifying as his 31.020 second lap was quicker than that of Tasillo, Ray Schoder, Michael McLain and Robert Lee. Victor Vollrath was the top driver in the final week of the Time Trial competition as his run at Kentucky was better than that of Tasillo, Kirschke, Christopher DiBenedetto and Bubbers. Bill Brown was crowned the NiCCS Time Trial champion for 2012 Season One with 785 points. Stephen Riggs, JD Bartone, Chris Allex and Bartee completed the top five of 843 who attempted a Time Trial run in the first quarter of ’12.
After the final laps were ran and the points tallied, Brooks will go down as the 2012 Season One champion of the NiCCS with 1576 points, 37 points more than Hindman’s total of 1539. Division Two titlist Jernigan rallied to finish third overall this season with 1385 points, four more than Trey Jarrell’s 1381. Savolainen completed the top five with 1362 points, just five more markers than Pruitt’s 1357 total. Divisional champions from Division Three to Ten include Tom Moustakas, Michael Atkins Jr., Rock Harris, Michael Valentin, Fausto Bessa Gomes, Robert Cori, Sean Cummings2 and Robert Mason2.
The NASCAR iRacing Class C Series fires up again for 2012 Season Two action at the start of May.
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Wright Holds-Off Davies at Darlington
May 13th, 2011 by DavidP
Brad Wright held-off Brad Davies over a series of late-race restarts en route to winning Tuesday’s NASCAR iRacing Series World Championship (NiSWC) at Darlington Speedway for his first career victory in the series. The Lady in Black’s treacherous surface and walls claimed many victims over the course of the 183 lap event, making survival key to earning a good finish.
In a battle of the 'Brads,' Wright (13) kept Davies (6) at bay over the last few laps to score his first NiSCW win at Darlington.
Defending NiSWC champion Richard Towler won the pole and led the first stint of the race, which surprisingly consisted of nearly 50 straight laps of green flag racing as everyone seemed content just to race the race track and log laps. Staying on the lead lap was the key and those drivers who went down a lap in the early going were forced to play catch-up the rest of the race.
When the first caution flew and the field came to pit road on Lap 45, Towler made a critical error. The defending champ got caught for speeding in the pits, and the resulting penalty forced him to restart the race at the tail end of the field. Josh Parker took over the lead at that point and checked-out on the field, showing that he was clearly the car to beat. He held the lead until a round of pit stops under the caution flag, which saw Davies take two tires and grab the race lead. Everyone was curious, would two tires pay off?
The answer was ‘Yes.’ Davies used clean air to his advantage and held-off Parker for nearly 30 laps until the next caution flew on Lap 105. This time around, Parker beat Davies off pit road and looked poised to drive into victory lane, as no one could come close to his race pace. The tables turned though when the yellow waved once again on Lap 117.
While Parker and most of the other front runners hit pit road for fresh tires, Ray Alfalla, Brian Schoenburg, Patrick Fogel, John Gorlinsky and Towler stayed out, hoping track position would mean more than fresh rubber. But shortly after the green flew, disaster struck when Towler and Parker made contact, sending both cars spinning into the Turn Three wall and out of the race.
Towler and Parker each led at Darlington before a collision ruined their races.
With the two fastest cars out of action, the race was now wide open. The driver who played his cards right and made his final pit stop at the right time would have the best shot at winning.
Cautions kept breeding more cautions, which led Alfalla and the other leaders to stay out on track to keep track position. The Floridian held the lead until Lap 147 when Davies, armed with fresher tires, looked low on the front straightaway and took the top spot away. Another yellow slowed the field on Lap 155 and Davies, along with most of the other leaders, elected to pit one last time for tires. Thomas Hazard chose to stay out on old tires and press his luck, hoping a string of late cautions would lead to a victory.
The ensuing restart saw Chris Main spin his tires from third place, triggering a mad scramble behind him with Wright taking advantage, moving up to third. Wright then made quick work of Gorlinksy and Hazard to take the lead on Lap 167 and had only one man to beat: Davies. Davies made a valiant charge, but came up just short in the end, finishing just over three tenths of a second behind the winner.
Wright explained how restarts were the key to his win. “On the next to last restart, I had gained the lead from Thomas Hazard and stretched out an eight car lead. The last restart, I had the lead, but was not comfortable at all due to Brad Davies being in my mirror the last 10 laps. After (Davies made) a few mistakes trying to catch me, I was fortunate enough to hold off his charge.”
“I had the lead, but was not comfortable at all due to Brad Davies being in my mirror the last 10 laps.” — Brad Wright
Behind the tense battle for first, Connor Mackenzie limped his battered car home to an impressive third place, with Hazard slipping to fourth and Gorlinsky holding-on to fifth.
After seven of eighteen races this season, Hazard (263 points) now holds the point lead by three points over Alfalla. Wright jumped all the way to third in the standings, 23 points behind the leader. Parker (224) sits in fourth, while Tyler Hudson rounds-out the top five after a fourteenth place finish at Darlington.
Week Eight sees the series shift back to a 1.5 mile track, Charlotte Motor Speedway. The track promises to be a welcome break from the tense action and caution- filled events from previous weeks, with long green flag runs being common place. Setting a car up for the long run will be a key to winning, and the driver who hits the setup the best will have a great shot at running away with the show. Will Towler break out of his slump, or will another new face end up in victory lane for the first time? Tune in to PSRTV’s broadcast on www.iRacing.com in two weeks’ time to find out!
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Specialty : Healthcare; Hospitals; Clinical Research; Medical Devices; Surgery; Start-ups; Strategic Planning; Start-ups; Pediatrics; Healthcare Management; Healthcare innovations; Internet things; Healthcare IT; Business Planning; Product Development; Research, Medical Apps, Tele-care, Telemedicine
Dr. Kadiyali Srivatsa is the Founder and CEO of 7iMed Ltd. He has over thirty years of professional expertise as a pediatric and intensive care doctor. After qualifying as a doctors of Medicine in Bangalore, he moved to train, work and lived in UK since 1983.
He is fluent in five Indian languages, English, and is learning German. Dr. Srivasta’s vision is to “Bring tears of happiness” by reducing social in-equalities in health. His mission is Fighting Infections Saving Lives. He has published two books, created two apps and hoping to create a network of doctors and patients all over the world, to ease communication and reduce cost.
In a time where bacteria and emerging infections threaten humanity, he has integrated his innovation (MAYA) to help doctors to initially identify infected individuals and isolate them. He feels the scientists and doctors will not be able to develop eighteen drugs to fight infections. He said “This is not a war that we can win” cause the bacteria are stronger, more intelligent and are adapted to survive.
His is educating people to make them share responsibility and avoid visiting health centers to reduce cross infections and abuse antibiotics. People, who are ill, can use Dr Maya apps to differentiate common from not so common illness, communicate and reduce wasted consultations and cost. Monitoring clusters of people with similar symptoms in an area early will avert epidemics and pandemics in the future.
With an unashamed fire, he forges forth with his innovation that he undoubtedly believes will save millions of lives worldwide. Dr. Srivatsa has team of soft ware engineers, app developers and doctors who are passionately working on this project.
In describing Dr. Srivatsa three qualities come to mind: passion, integrity, and empathy. In the development of this program, Srivatsa firmly believes that he has fulfilled his purpose in life and contributed to his profession and society.
Though he is consumed with his current responsibilities to market his books and encourage government to implement this system and offer basic healthcare free of cost. He has no time for recreation but he does enjoy traveling, socializing and photography.
You can listen to his talk and read his feature article “Superbug Pandemic and how to prevent them”, published in American Interest, January 2017
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Companies in the Sports Business
Top 10: The Most Popular Sports Brands on Instagram
Martin Jahns
Sports business I 03/26/2019
Nike, Adidas, The North Face & Co.
Instagram has become a powerful marketing tool for sports brands. To put this into perspective: there are more Nike followers in the world than Germans. Two outdoor companies have also made it into the top 10 of the most popular brands on Instagram.
10. FILA: 2.03 million followers
The company, which was founded in Italy, has its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, since 2007. The sporting goods manufacturer presents itself on its most popular Instagram account "filausa" as a lifestyle brand with a retro touch.
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9. Reebok: 2.29 million followers
On Instagram, Reebok relies on well-known brand faces, such as top model Gigi Hadid, who herself has 46.7 million Instagram followers. Like all top 10 accounts, the Adidas subsidiary posts in English.
8. Gymshark: 3.07 million followers
While companies like FILA have more than 100 years of company history on their backs, Gymshark was founded in 2012 by teenagers around Ben Francis. Less than seven years later, the manufacturer and online retailer of fitness clothing and accessories has become a social media power.
Image credit: Gymshark
7. New Balance: 3.13 million followers
The British company New Balance highlights lifestyle shots and prominent partners. Probably the biggest driving force at the moment is FC Liverpool, which is equipped by the sporting goods manufacturer.
6. The North Face: 3.79 million followers
Two outdoor brands have made it into the top 10. One of them is The North Face. Instagram collaborations like the hashtag #SheMovesMountains about adventurous and courageous female climbers, that The North Face pursues together with SportScheck, are well received by the Instagram community.
Image credit: The North Face
5. Patagonia: 3.89 million followers
The second outdoor brand among the top 10 brands is the US company Patagonia. With posts that create awareness of the environment and sustainability, the brand makes it into the top 5.
Image credit: Patagonia
4. Under Armour: 7.02 million followers
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank is notorious for his rousing and megalomaniac performances. The Baltimore-based company does not spill over on Instagram either, as the more than 7 million followers of the brand founded in 1996 prove.
3. Puma: 9.36 million followers
Full Influencer power ahead at Puma! With Selena Gomez, the company from Herzogenaurach has an Instagram-institution (147.6 million followers!) as its driving force. In addition, there are big names such as Antoine Griezmann, Borussia Dortmund and, most recently, the company's NBA comeback, which should give the US market some tailwind.
2. Adidas Originals: 32.7 million followers
Adidas Originals have to content themselves with the second largest account. But Adidas has much more in stock: the Instagram account "Adidasfootball" has an additional 27.8 million followers. The company-owned account "Adidas" has 23.3 million. And "small" accounts like "Adidas_de" add hundreds of thousands of fans. Such figures make it clear which potentials lie dormant in company accounts tailored to target groups.
Image credit: Adidas
1. Nike: 85.9 million followers
Nike's "main account" has an impressive 85.9 million followers, making it the third largest corporate account after the in-house account of Instagram and National Geographic. "Nikefootball" adds another 37 million followers, "nikesportswear" has 6.8 million followers. Impressive figures from the US sporting goods manufacturer, which also has Cristiano Ronaldo, the most popular sportsman at Instagram, as its advertising face. The two have found each other ...
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An apparently hallucinating Florida man used a bedpost to attack a mattress where he thought a man was hiding. In a Facebook post, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s office quotes the girlfriend of 37-year-old Felipe Oquendo as saying that he began acting erratically early Friday. The girlfriend told deputies Oquendo thought she was cheating on him with a man he thought he saw in the mattress at their Fort Walton Beach home. She said Oquendo hit the mattress with a bed post, ripped it apart, and locked the bedroom door. She was able to escape and call police. The sheriff’s office says Oquendo later admitted to having smoked meth. (https://bit.ly/2XKnPhE)
Oprah Winfrey dropped $10,000 on a graduation dress for a student at her leadership academy. (https://pge.sx/2VzadrY)
Actress Maureen McCormick says she wants anti-vaxxers to stop making memes of “The Brady Bunch” episode in which Marcia gets the measles.
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A pregnant woman in China put in an urgent order for a pizza, asking the restaurant to send it quickly as she was about to give birth. The pizza restaurant was told to send the pizza to a local maternity and children’s healthcare hospital. The owners of the restaurant said the then-expectant mom is a regular customer.
A study shows 84 percent of adults struggle to open child-proof packaging on medicines. Experts said this meant adults put pills and tablets into other containers which are accessible to children. Researchers said packaging should be easy to open, but in a way that is too complex for young children to work out.
If you’re heading to the theater this weekend, skip the popcorn — or order a mini or small. Nutrition experts say in 2019, the typical medium bucket of movie theater popcorn contains 1,200 to 1,500 calories.
Parking gangs that are using vacuum cleaners to suck money out of machines are forcing some UK officials to consider scrapping cash meters. Armed with sledgehammers, the organized gangs have stolen $160,000 out of 70 machines in the past 12 months. The criminals are smashing the meters open or drilling holes in them before inserting vacuum cleaner hoses to suck the money out.
I'll bet when you put in eye drops, a bunch spills out and runs down your face. That's not on accident. A ProPublica investigation on how billions of health care dollars are wasted each year, finds that eye drops are way too big - some of them more than twice what the eye can actually hold - resulting in drainage and waste. A lot of waste, considering US drug companies made $3.4 billion last year on drops for dry eyes and glaucoma alone. Not only are users paying for the drops that end up wiped on a tissue, but the waste can have a serious impact on patients like Gregory Matthews, who has glaucoma and sometimes runs out of drops before his refill is available. Using eye drops consistently is important for glaucoma patients, because they help keep blindness at bay. Making matters worse? Smaller drops are possible. In the early 1990s, a "microdrop" was developed, and studies conclusively found patients were able to administer it safely and effectively, leaving no waste. But it never came to market, and experts say that's because drug companies are greedy and more concerned with profits than patients. The same size bottle of eye drops could now last up to twice as long if microdrops were used. (Newser)A mother-daughter duo who used a $4,000 drone to drop a package of contraband behind the walls of a Florida prison will themselves serve time as a result of a felony plea deal struck with prosecutors. 40-year-old Cassandra Kerr and 22-year-old Concetta Didiano each entered no contest pleas to introducing contraband into a state correctional institution, a felony carrying a maximum of five years in prison. Kerr and Didiano were arrested in mid-December, shortly after Martin Correctional Institution (MCI) staffers spotted a drone hovering over the facility around 2:00 a.m. Jailers were suspicious that the drone was “possibly delivering a package to the rooftop of one of the inmate housing facilities.” Investigators subsequently recovered the drone’s cargo--a package containing tobacco and cell phones. The drone, a Matrice 600 outfitted with a payload release mechanism, was later destroyed when it was somehow struck by a car traveling near the prison entrance. (https://bit.ly/2L1keds)FUN FACT FOR YOU:
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A Florida man was arrested after threatening to kill two lawn care workers for leaving grass clippings on the walkway of his home. According to Hernando County deputies, 49-year-old Anthony Sabella had two men provide lawn care service to him at his home located on Finsbury Drive. According to police reports, he called one of the workers, saying they had left grass clippings on his walkway. When the men returned to clean up the grass, they were met by Sabella shouting at them and using racial slurs. The workers then reported leaving the home and calling 9-1-1 after Sabella followed them in his vehicle and pointed a gun at them, threatening to kill the men. The case was turned over to Major Case detectives, who got a warrant for his arrest after deputies said they tried to contact Sabella but couldn't. Last Thursday, deputies and detectives waited for Sabella to leave his home. When he did, he was stopped and arrested. Sabella was charged with possession of a firearm/ammunition by a felon and two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. He is being held without bail. (https://bit.ly/2IMjU0h)
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A Pasco County, Florida man accused of trying to shoplift more than $4,000 worth of merchandise from a New Port Richey Walmart blamed his blood sugar and diabetes for making him do it. Lawrence Fruggiero Jr. was arrested and charged with grand theft on April 19th after investigators say he tried to steal a total of $2,098.50 worth of merchandise in two separate attempts. Arrest records indicate one of the incidents happened on April 16th, and the second happened the day of his arrest. Fruggiero was able to post his bond and was released from jail. Deputies say as they continued their investigation into the two incidents, they became aware of two additional times that Fruggiero attempted to shoplift from the same Walmart. Arrest warrants suggest he attempted to take a total of $2,385.26 worth of merchandise in the two additional tries. He was then arrested again on April 25th and charged with scheming to defraud. An arrest report says after being read his Miranda rights, Fruggiero said he did not remember committing the additional thefts because of his blood sugar and diabetes which make him not always know what he is doing.
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This page sets out the text version of each force’s summary page in the 2017/18 Rape Monitoring Group dashboard.
You can also see the raw data for this publication on the RMG data page.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Avon and Somerset Constabulary recorded:
1,284 rapes of a female aged 16 and over;
245 rapes of a female aged 13 to 15 years, inclusive;
110 rapes of a female aged under 13;
64 rapes of a male aged 16 and over;
38 rapes of a male aged 13 to 15 years, inclusive; and
32 rapes of a male aged under 13.
In this same period, Avon and Somerset Constabulary received 207 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 29 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 38 rape offences.
Over this same period, Avon and Somerset Constabulary referred 158 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 90 cases.
During the same year, the CPS successfully convicted 92 cases and brought 57 unsuccessful prosecutions.
The Ministry of Justice reported that 104 rape suspects were proceeded against in this period. Of those, 31 offenders were found guilty.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Bedfordshire Police recorded:
313 rapes of a female aged 16 and over;
55 rapes of a female aged 13 to 15 years, inclusive;
35 rapes of a female aged under 13;
3 rapes of a male aged 13 to 15 years, inclusive; and
In this same period, Bedfordshire Police received 122 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 40 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 11 rape offences.
Over this same period, Bedfordshire Police referred 65 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 18 cases.
The Ministry of Justice reported that 25 rape suspects were proceeded against in this period. Of those, 7 offenders were found guilty.
British Transport Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 British Transport Police recorded:
18 rapes of a female aged 16 and over;
3 rapes of a female aged 13 to 15 years, inclusive;
0 rapes of a female aged under 13;
1 rapes of a male aged 16 and over;
1 rapes of a male aged under 13.
In this same period, British Transport Police received 207 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 11 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 4 rape offences.
Over this same period, British Transport Police referred 4 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 3 cases.
During the same year, the CPS successfully convicted 2 cases and brought 3 unsuccessful prosecutions.
The Ministry of Justice reported that 0 rape suspects were proceeded against in this period. Of those, 0 offenders were found guilty.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Cambridgeshire Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Cambridgeshire Constabulary received 121 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 6 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 42 rape offences.
Over this same period, Cambridgeshire Constabulary referred 94 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 29 cases.
The Ministry of Justice reported that 47 rape suspects were proceeded against in this period. Of those, 16 offenders were found guilty.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Cheshire Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Cheshire Constabulary received 287 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 27 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 22 rape offences.
Over this same period, Cheshire Constabulary referred 139 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 58 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 City of London Police recorded:
0 rapes of a female aged 16 and over;
In this same period, City of London Police received 47 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 0 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 0 rape offences.
Crimes recorded in City of London are covered by the London Crime Prosecution Service region, see the Metropolitan Police Service data below.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Cleveland Police recorded:
In this same period, Cleveland Police received 146 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 38 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 10 rape offences.
Over this same period, Cleveland Police referred 82 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 28 cases.
Cumbria Constabulary
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Cumbria Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Cumbria Constabulary received 106 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 20 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 21 rape offences.
Over this same period, Cumbria Constabulary referred 76 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 38 cases.
Derbyshire Constabulary
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Derbyshire Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Derbyshire Constabulary received 82 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 99 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 81 rape offences.
Over this same period, Derbyshire Constabulary referred 103 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 61 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Devon and Cornwall Police recorded:
65 rapes of a male aged under 13;
In this same period, Devon and Cornwall Police received 100 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 29 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 148 rape offences.
Over this same period, Devon and Cornwall Police referred 75 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 35 cases.
Dorset Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Dorset Police recorded:
In this same period, Dorset Police received 227 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 27 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 26 rape offences.
Over this same period, Dorset Police referred 44 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 25 cases.
Durham Constabulary
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Durham Constabulary recorded:
12 rapes of a male aged 13–15 years, inclusive; and
In this same period, Durham Constabulary received 208 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 13 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 48 rape offences.
Over this same period, Durham Constabulary referred 89 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 43 cases.
Dyfed-Powys Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Dyfed-Powys Police recorded:
In this same period, Dyfed-Powys Police received 58 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 10 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 23 rape offences.
Over this same period, Dyfed-Powys Police referred 39 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 26 cases.
During the same year, the CPS successfully convicted 21 cases and brought 6 unsuccessful prosecutions.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Essex Police recorded:
In this same period, Essex Police received 554 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 40 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 62 rape offences.
Over this same period, Essex Police referred 178 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 38 cases.
Gloucestershire Constabulary
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Gloucestershire Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Gloucestershire Constabulary received 35 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 3 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 25 rape offences.
Over this same period, Gloucestershire Constabulary referred 33 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 23 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Greater Manchester Police recorded:
312 rapes of a male aged 16 and over;
160 rapes of a male aged under 13.
In this same period, Greater Manchester Police received 619 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 30 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 250 rape offences.
Over this same period, Greater Manchester Police referred 529 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 218 cases.
During the same year, the CPS successfully convicted 162 cases and brought 144 unsuccessful prosecutions.
Gwent Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Gwent Police recorded:
In this same period, Gwent Police received 69 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 3 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 11 rape offences.
Over this same period, Gwent Police referred 46 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 26 cases.
Hampshire Constabulary
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Hampshire Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Hampshire Constabulary received 222 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 21 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 103 rape offences.
Over this same period, Hampshire Constabulary referred 137 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 76 cases.
Hertfordshire Constabulary
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Hertfordshire Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Hertfordshire Constabulary received 209 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 62 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 34 rape offences.
Over this same period, Hertfordshire Constabulary referred 56 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 35 cases.
Humberside Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Humberside Police recorded:
In this same period, Humberside Police received 101 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 26 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 59 rape offences.
Over this same period, Humberside Police referred 112 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 63 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Kent Police recorded:
In this same period, Kent Police received 778 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 59 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 183 rape offences.
Over this same period, Kent Police referred 133 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 71 cases.
Lancashire Constabulary
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Lancashire Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Lancashire Constabulary received 196 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 48 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 133 rape offences.
Over this same period, Lancashire Constabulary referred 203 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 86 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Leicestershire Police recorded:
In this same period, Leicestershire Police received 72 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 18 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 40 rape offences.
Over this same period, Leicestershire Police referred 110 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 64 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Lincolnshire Police recorded:
In this same period, Lincolnshire Police received 0 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 37 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 59 rape offences.
Over this same period, Lincolnshire Police referred 33 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 19 cases.
Merseyside Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Merseyside Police recorded:
In this same period, Merseyside Police received 65 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 21 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 54 rape offences.
Over this same period, Merseyside Police referred 207 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 66 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 the Metropolitan Police Service recorded:
In this same period, the Metropolitan Police Service received 2,637 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 80 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 220 rape offences.
Over this same period, the Metropolitan Police Service (and City of London Police) referred 932 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 426 cases.
The Ministry of Justice reported that 692 rape suspects were proceeded against in this period. Of those, 162 offenders were found guilty.
Please note: CPS data publish combined data for the two police services in London (the Metropolitan Police Service and City of London Police).
Norfolk Constabulary
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Norfolk Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Norfolk Constabulary received 154 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 67 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 69 rape offences.
Over this same period, Norfolk Constabulary referred 169 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 30 cases.
North Wales Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 North Wales Police recorded:
In this same period, North Wales Police received 222 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 9 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 15 rape offences.
Over this same period, North Wales Police referred 77 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 38 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 North Yorkshire Police recorded:
In this same period, North Yorkshire Police received 244 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 7 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 20 rape offences.
Over this same period, North Yorkshire Police referred 67 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 41 cases.
Northamptonshire Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Northamptonshire Police recorded:
In this same period, Northamptonshire Police received 161 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 42 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 20 rape offences.
Over this same period, Northamptonshire Police referred 93 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 62 cases.
Northumbria Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Northumbria Police recorded:
In this same period, Northumbria Police received 305 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 27 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 164 rape offences.
Over this same period, Northumbria Police referred 145 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 79 cases.
Nottinghamshire Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Nottinghamshire Police recorded:
In this same period, Nottinghamshire Police received 318 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 65 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 38 rape offences.
Over this same period, Nottinghamshire Police referred 127 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 88 cases.
South Wales Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 South Wales Police recorded:
In this same period, South Wales Police received 220 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 28 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 22 rape offences.
Over this same period, South Wales Police referred 208 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 103 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 South Yorkshire Police recorded:
In this same period, South Yorkshire Police received 367 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 21 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 65 rape offences.
Over this same period, South Yorkshire Police referred 113 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 70 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Staffordshire Police recorded:
In this same period, Staffordshire Police received 158 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 45 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 42 rape offences.
Over this same period, Staffordshire Police referred 96 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 42 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Suffolk Constabulary recorded:
In this same period, Suffolk Constabulary received 367 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 44 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 40 rape offences.
Over this same period, Suffolk Constabulary referred 76 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 16 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Surrey Police recorded:
In this same period, Surrey Police received 71 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 26 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 19 rape offences.
Over this same period, Surrey Police referred 60 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 36 cases.
Sussex Police
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Sussex Police recorded:
In this same period, Sussex Police received 240 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 68 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 39 rape offences.
Over this same period, Sussex Police referred 131 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 74 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Thames Valley Police recorded:
In this same period, Thames Valley Police received 533 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 69 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 120 rape offences.
Over this same period, Thames Valley Police referred 204 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 104 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Warwickshire Police recorded:
In this same period, Warwickshire Police received 106 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 14 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 10 rape offences.
Over this same period, Warwickshire Police referred 49 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 21 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 West Mercia Police recorded:
In this same period, West Mercia Police received 265 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 13 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 21 rape offences.
Over this same period, West Mercia Police referred 131 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 50 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 West Midlands Police recorded:
In this same period, West Midlands Police received 343 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 17 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 39 rape offences.
Over this same period, West Midlands Police referred 341 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 146 cases.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 West Yorkshire Police recorded:
In this same period, West Yorkshire Police received 283 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 10 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 137 rape offences.
Over this same period, West Yorkshire Police referred 187 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 131 cases.
During the same year, the CPS successfully convicted 160 cases and brought 83 unsuccessful prosecutions.
In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 Wiltshire Police recorded:
In this same period, Wiltshire Police received 81 rape reports that were not recorded as a crime. It transferred 4 rape offences to other police forces and cancelled 30 rape offences.
Over this same period, Wiltshire Police referred 61 cases of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision. Of those, the CPS charged 26 cases.
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Environmental group launches GoFundMe for fence to separate Rogue wolves, ranchers
The local group KS Wild is looking for helping to build a peaceful solution to depredation from the Rogue Pack.
Posted: Jun 28, 2019 4:58 PM
Updated: Jun 28, 2019 5:03 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
ASHLAND, Ore. — A local environmental group has come up with a novel solution to ongoing depredation by wolves of Southern Oregon's "Rogue Pack" — crowd-funding enough money to build a very tall fence.
"We are raising $6,000 to complete the funding required to build a tall fence, which was determined by state and federal wildlife officials to be the best way to keep the wolves away from cattle and return to hunting wild game instead," says the Ashland-based Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (KS Wild).
The group indicates that they've been collaborating with a local rancher and the U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife on the solution. That local rancher is most likely Ted Birdseye, who has borne the brunt of the Rogue Pack's kills over the past year or two. Birdseye runs the Mil-Mar Ranch up in Prospect.
READ: Report: Wolves thriving in Oregon, livestock attacks rise sharply
"They have been caught killing livestock adjacent to where they are denning and it is feared that this will become a learned behavior for the pack, putting them in danger," KS Wild says.
For his part, Birdseye has demonstrated profound patience in trying to find ways to deter the wolves without killing them — raising guard dogs, wire fencing, red flags, and a big inflatable "dancing man" in an attempt to keep the wolves out — but to no avail. He says he's lost almost 10 of his animals, both calves and dogs.
Enter: The fence.
KS Wild says that it has already raised 90 percent of the funds needed to build the fence, but needs a little help to get across the finish line. Their GoFundMe campaign, launched on June 10, aims to raise $6,000. As of Friday afternoon, the group had raised $1,625 toward that goal.
"This pack is the source of many of the wolves that are just now recovering on the west coast. We need this pack to be successful, and that means we need the local ranchers and wolves to co-exist," KS Wild says.
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Sunset over Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park
Mormon Barn at sunrise, Grand Teton National Park
Snake River Overlook at Sunrise, Grand Teton National Park
Moose, Grand Teton National Park
Horses with Mt. Moran and wildfire in distance, Grand Teton National Park
Sunset over the Tetons, Wyoming
The Oxbow Bend of the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park
Sunrise at Schwabacher's Landing, Grand Teton National Park
Sow and her Calf, Grand Teton National Park
Jackson Lake at sunset, Grand Teton National Park
Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park
Bison, Grand Teton National Park
Waterfowl, Grand Teton National Park
Wildfire, Grand Teton National Park
View from Signal Mountain, Grand Teton National Park
Autumn Colors, Grand Teton National Park
Sunset at Signal Mountain, Grand Teton National Park
Wildfire near Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park
Homage to Ansel Adams, Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park
Mormon Barns with Mount Moran in the distance, Grand Teton National Park
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6 Intoxication-Related Arrests In Hopkins County
Home » Headlines » 6 Intoxication-Related Arrests In Hopkins County
Local officials conducted 6 intoxication-related arrests, including two on felony and four on misdemeanor charges, June 6-8.
Davis Street DWI Crash
Kenneth John Isham was arrested after an officer observed him crashing a tan Buick Century at the corner of North Davis and Main Street at 5:55 p.m. June 7, Sulphur Springs Police Officer Nick Floyd alleged in arrest reports.
Kenneth John Isham
(HCSO jail photo)
Upon arrival, Floyd reported seeing the other officer talking to Isham, who was sitting in the front seat of his car and had blood on his face; officers requested EMS to respond at the location to check Isham out. Isham allegedly made a statement to the other officer that he had drunk too much.
When EMS arrived, Isham reportedly refused any medical treatment. When asked to perform standard field sobriety tests, he allegedly refused. He was taken into custody for further investigation. When asked to provide a breath specimen, he also gain refused, Floyd alleged in arrest reports. A search warrant was sought and obtained, requiring a blood draw for analysis. He was taken to the hospital, where a blood sample was drawn, then transported to Hopkins County jail, Floyd wrote in arrest reports.
Isham was booked for third or more driving while intoxicated offense. The 56-year-old Sulphur Springs man remained in Hopkins County jail Tuesday, June 9. Bond was set at $10,000 on the the third-degree felony DWI charge, according to jail reports.
Warrant Arrests
Amanda Marie Rowe
Amanda Marie Rowe was arrested and jailed in Hunt County on a Hopkins County warrant.
Hopkins County Sheriff‘s Deputy Elijah Fite transported the 35-year-old Commerce woman from Hunt County jail to Hopkins County jail.
She was booked June 8 on a warrant for violation of probation, which she was on for a June 2014 driving while intoxicated with a child passenger who was under 15 years of age in the vehicle offense, according to arrest and jail reports. Rowe remained in Hopkins County jail Tuesday, June 9, according to jail reports.
A 32-year-old Mesquite man was arrested in Dallas County on a misdemeanor Hopkins County warrant. Deputy Fite transported the man from Dallas County jail to Hopkins County jail, where he was booked June 8 on the warrant for violation of probation, which he was on for a misdemeanor DWI charge, according to jail reports.
He was released from Hopkins County jail Tuesday, June 9. Bond was set at $5,000 on the charge, according to jail reports.
Misdemeanor DWI Arrest
HCSO deputies responded to a report of a possible intoxicated driver in the area of FM 3019 and State Highway 11 east at 1:45 p.m. June 6. A Winnsboro Police officer in the area located and stopped the suspect vehicle prior to the deputies’ arrival, according to arrest reports. The first deputy on scene radioed the other responding deputy to request an interpreter. That deputy had a fluent corrections officer ride with him to assist in translating.
The driver of the gray Hyundai was asked to perform field sobriety tests; the 28-year-old was unable to follow directions for a horizontal gaze nystagmus test and unable to successfully perform walk and turn and one-legged stand tests, deputies alleged in arrest reports.
The Winnsboro man was reportedly transported to the county jail for further investigation of DWI. He agreed to a breath test. An intoxilyzer operator for the Sulphur Springs police department arrived to conduct the test. Twice the police officer attempted to obtain a breath sample, and twice the results were reported to be invalid, deputies noted in arrest reports.
The man then allegedly agreed to a blood sample. A blood sample was reportedly taken for an analysis at 3:18 p.m. at the hospital. The man was then transported to the county jail and booked for DWI with an open container, according to arrest reports. He remained in Hopkins County jail on the misdemeanor DWI charge Tuesday, June 9, according to jail reports.
SH 19 Intoxication Arrests
Deputies and firefighters responded at 4:45 p.m. June 7 on State Highway 19 north at FM 71, where a vehicle reportedly went into the ditch and at least one person from the vehicle was throwing up, according to sheriff’s reports.
Upon arrival, deputies reported seeing two men. A 43-year-old Sulphur Springs man allegedly admitted to being intoxicated and an alcohol odor emitted from his breath. The man reportedly had difficulty walking, swaying and taking over-exaggerated, deliberate steps. Because the deputies did not witness the man operating the vehicle, he was arrested for public intoxication, deputies noted in reports.
A 45-year-old Sulphur Springs man was also arrested for public intoxication. He allegedly admitted to deputies that he “messed up.” Alcohol too could be smelled coming off of him for public intoxication as well, according to arrest reports.
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The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont St., Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. Non-emergency calls can be made to (903) 438-4040.
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Home / Tech News / Featured Tech News / Dirt 5 delayed again to launch closer to next-gen consoles
Dirt 5 delayed again to launch closer to next-gen consoles
Matthew Wilson September 7, 2020 Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming
Codemasters has revised the release date for Dirt 5 once again, although this time the delay is a tad longer. Previously, the game was due to release on PC and current-gen consoles in October before heading to next-gen consoles later this year. Now, the game is being pushed back to November for all platforms.
At this point, Microsoft has announced plans to launch the Xbox Series X in November and it is widely believed that Sony will be releasing the PS5 in November too. With that in mind, Codemasters is now releasing closer to the next-gen console launch window, which should give it a bit of a boost.
News: DIRT 5 will now launch on November 6 for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. #XboxSeriesX and #PS5 versions still launching later this year.
Our road trip just got a little bit longer. Thank you for being part of the journey with us. 🖐️ ❤️ pic.twitter.com/p5c8MDUfKo
— DIRT (@dirtgame) September 7, 2020
Dirt 5 launches for PC, Xbox One and PS4 on the 6th of November, while ‘Amplified Edition’ buyers get access three days early, starting on November 3rd. Next-gen versions will be available once the Xbox Series X and PS5 launch on their respective release dates.
The next-gen version will be particularly interesting, as it will be one of the first console games to include a 120Hz mode for ultra-smooth and responsive gameplay.
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Act fast or you could lose digital copies of your movies and TV shows
By James Gelinas, Komando.com
One startling reminder of our technological progress is the fact that every few years, we tend to switch up the ways we enjoy our media at home. I’m sure nearly everyone reading this remembers the days of VHS tapes — of Blockbuster, jammed cassette players, and “Be Kind, Rewind.” Following that, we had the advent of DVD and instant scene changes. Now, we live in the world of Blu Ray, 4K Ultra HD, and for the rest of us, digital downloads.
Well, if you’re a user of the latter, the time has come to leave one media venue behind. UltraViolet has announced that as of July 31st, it’s shuttering its doors for the last time — and it’s taking all the videos it’s storing in the cloud right now with them!
If you or a family member has ever used UltraViolet to download digital copies of your favorite movies and shows, you won’t want to miss this important update. We’ll break down what’s changing with ultraviolet videos, and what you can do to claim your digital copies before they’re gone forever.
Farewell to UltraViolet: An eight-year legacy
After eight years on the scene, UltraViolet announced to subscribers in an email that it would be shuttering its services for good.
When it first began, UltraViolet mostly served as an avenue to download digital copies of Blu Ray discs you purchased — so you could easily watch the movies and shows you owned on your device. The service even included free cloud storage for the videos you owned.
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Now, the company is informing users that all this content will be lost unless retrieved from its servers by July 31st. The email UltraViolet sent to subscribers and customers is as follows:
We are writing to inform you that the UltraViolet service is planning to shut down on July 31, 2019. You are receiving this message because you signed up for an UltraViolet Library or for a service that created an UltraViolet Library for you.
Between January 31 and July 31, 2019
-You can continue to access your UltraViolet movies and TV shows through the retailer(s) linked to your UltraViolet Library.
-You can also continue to purchase new movies and TV shows and redeem digital codes by following the redemption instructions. Depending on the retailer, these new purchases and redemptions may or may not be added to your UltraViolet Library.
-Linking your UltraViolet Library to additional retailers can maximize your access to your Library and help avoid potential disruption.
After the shutdown date
-Your UltraViolet Library will automatically close and, in the majority of cases, your movies and TV shows will remain accessible at previously-linked retailers.
-You can continue to make online purchases and redeem codes, but these may only be available through that retailer, and will not be added to your UltraViolet Library.
-As soon as possible, log in at myuv.com and choose Retailer Services to verify the retailers linked to your UltraViolet Library. If your Library is not currently linked to a retailer or if you would like to link to additional participating retailers, select one or more retailers to link to your UltraViolet Library.
–Don’t unlink or close your UltraViolet Library, as UltraViolet and retailers will be working together to maximize your continued access to movies and TV shows.
-Look for further communications from UltraViolet and your retailers over the coming months, as some retailers may disconnect from UltraViolet before July 31.
Some details may be updated, so visit myuv.com/faq often for the most current information and answers to frequently asked questions.
Thank you for making UltraViolet part of how you enjoy digital entertainment. Please do not hesitate to contact customer support at [email protected] if you have additional questions.
The UltraViolet Team
What should I do to save my collection?
For starters, UltraViolet’s email makes it clear that anything left on its servers at the cutoff time will be lost to the ages. To protect the videos you’ve purchased through UltraViolet, simply visit the website described in the email and download your content to your device of choice. If you have a large library, this process can take a while — so plan your time and hard drive space accordingly.
Related: Guide to cutting the cord — 5 things you need to do
On top of this, the email recommends linking your account to an existing retailer in order to retain continued access. To make the process easier, the company is hosting a webpage that shows its current retail partners.
For U.S. residents, UltraViolet recommends pairing your account with either FandangoNow or Vudu, which are both streaming services that are compatible with major devices like Amazon Fire TV and Roku. By signing up with these services and pairing your library, you can retain access to your UltraViolet collection even if you don’t download everything!
This option might be easier for those of us with large video collections or small amounts of hard drive space.
Ultimately, as UltraViolet shuts down, it’s likely that a new digital giant will take its space in the marketplace of content delivery.
Whether it provides the same kind of experience remains to be seen, but judging by current trends, it’s unlikely that digital downloads will be as popular an avenue going forward. Streaming is the way of the future, and it’s time we got used to it — whether we like it or not.
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Research ArticleImmunologyTherapeutics Free access | 10.1172/JCI125456
CD33 recruitment inhibits IgE-mediated anaphylaxis and desensitizes mast cells to allergen
Shiteng Duan,1 Cynthia J. Koziol-White,2 William F. Jester Jr.,2 Corwin M. Nycholat,1 Matthew S. Macauley,1 Reynold A. Panettieri Jr.,2 and James C. Paulson1
1Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.
2Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, USA.
Address correspondence to: James C. Paulson, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, MB202, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. Phone: 858.784.9634; Email: jpaulson@scripps.edu.
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Published January 15, 2019 - More info
Published in Volume 129, Issue 3 on March 1, 2019
J Clin Invest. 2019;129(3):1387–1401. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI125456.
Published January 15, 2019 - Version history
Received: October 10, 2018; Accepted: January 8, 2019
Recruiting CD33 on mast cells to inhibit IgE-mediated mast cell–dependent anaphylaxis
Stephen J. Galli
IgE-mediated activation of mast cells is a hallmark of an anaphylactic reaction to allergen. In this issue of the JCI, Duan et al. describe an approach for suppressing IgE-dependent mast cell activation, thereby suppressing anaphylaxis. Specifically, the authors show that delivery of liposomes containing both the specific antigen recognized by the mast cell–bound IgE and a high-affinity glycan ligand of the inhibitory receptor CD33 (CD33L) to targeted mast cells inhibits antigen-induced, FcεRI-dependent spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) phosphorylation and downstream protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) phosphorylation, Ca++ flux, and β-hexosaminidase release (i.e., degranulation). However, this strategy only worked if both the antigen (reactive with the mast cell–bound IgE) and CD33L were on the same liposome. This approach promises to rapidly reduce IgE-dependent mast cell activation in response to challenge with offending allergens.
Allergen immunotherapy for patients with allergies begins with weekly escalating doses of allergen under medical supervision to monitor and treat IgE mast cell–mediated anaphylaxis. There is currently no treatment to safely desensitize mast cells to enable robust allergen immunotherapy with therapeutic levels of allergen. Here, we demonstrated that liposomal nanoparticles bearing an allergen and a high-affinity glycan ligand of the inhibitory receptor CD33 profoundly suppressed IgE-mediated activation of mast cells, prevented anaphylaxis in Tg mice with mast cells expressing human CD33, and desensitized mice to subsequent allergen challenge for several days. We showed that high levels of CD33 were consistently expressed on human skin mast cells and that the antigenic liposomes with CD33 ligand prevented IgE-mediated bronchoconstriction in slices of human lung. The results demonstrated the potential of exploiting CD33 to desensitize mast cells to provide a therapeutic window for administering allergen immunotherapy without triggering anaphylaxis.
Type I hypersensitivity, or allergy, is a major public health concern worldwide (1). In the US, food allergy alone affects 15 million Americans (2, 3), and at least 1.6% of the population has experienced anaphylaxis (4). Mast cells play a key role in allergy and anaphylaxis through expression of the high-affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI), which strongly binds allergen-specific IgE. Allergen crosslinking of the IgE-FcεRI complex triggers mast cell exocytosis of preformed granules and release of additional newly synthesized mediators (5–8). Individuals with allergies typically manage their conditions by avoiding the allergens, by targeting the mediators released by mast cells, or by alleviating symptoms using an antihistamine or corticosteroid upon accidental exposure (9). A therapeutic option approved to treat severe allergic asthma is omalizumab (Xolair), an anti-IgE antibody that reduces circulating levels of IgEs and blocks circulating IgE from binding to the FcεRI receptor. However, while this drug reduces sensitivity over time, patients receiving omalizumab can remain sensitive to allergens long after allergen-specific IgE is cleared from the serum as a result of the slow turnover of mast cells and long half-life of FcεRI-IgE complexes (10, 11). The only option for developing sustained tolerance is allergen immunotherapy, which, given the risk of anaphylaxis, requires months to years of administration of allergen in escalating graded doses under medical supervision (12). Even though allergen immunotherapy is sometimes effective in producing sustained unresponsiveness to allergens, most patients withdraw because of the prolonged regimen or because of adverse symptoms, including anaphylaxis, during treatment, before reaching a therapeutic dose (12). Clearly, a method for introducing a therapeutic amount of allergen into a sensitized individual without the risk of anaphylaxis would be a major breakthrough in allergen immunotherapy (12–14).
Mast cells express a number of inhibitory receptors bearing immunoreceptor tyrosine–based inhibitory motifs (ITIMs), which can recruit tyrosine phosphatases and interrupt the kinase-driven signaling cascades, preventing mast cell degranulation and cytokine production (9, 14, 15). A promising approach to inhibit mast cell activation involves strategies that ligate inhibitory receptors to the IgE-FcεRI complex. For example, bispecific antibodies that bind IgE and an inhibitory receptor (FcγRIIb or CD300a) effectively reduced mast cell activation induced by subsequent allergen challenges in mouse models of anaphylaxis (16–19). A variation of this strategy involves a chimeric fusion protein that fuses allergen (Fel d 1 or Ara h 2 [Ah2]) to a single chain antibody targeting the FcγRIIb receptor, which can block mast cell activation in mouse models of anaphylaxis (20, 21).
Several members of the inhibitory sialic acid–binding immunoglobulin-like lectins (Siglec) family have also been reported to be expressed on human mast cells and include CD33 (Siglec-3) on human lung mast cells (22) and Siglec-5, -6, and -8 on CD34+ cell–derived mast cells (23). Since all of these Siglecs contain ITIMs in their cytoplasmic domain (24, 25), they represent alternatives for the use of inhibitory receptors to suppress mast cell degranulation. With the goal of recruiting Siglecs to the FcεRI receptor on mast cells, we recognized that a nanoparticle platform we developed for the suppression of B cell activation might be adapted to mast cells. For B cells, liposomal nanoparticles that displayed both an antigen and a high-affinity ligand for a B cell Siglec (CD22 or Siglec-G) strongly suppressed B cell activation by recruiting the Siglec to the immunological synapse with the B cell receptor. Furthermore, it induced an apoptotic signal that eliminated the antigen-specific B cells from the B cell repertoire, leading to immunological tolerance of the mouse to subsequent antigen challenge (26–29).
We reasoned that antigenic liposomes bearing an allergen and glycan ligand of a mast cell–inhibitory Siglec might similarly result in recruitment to the IgE-FcεRI complex and suppress mast cell degranulation (Figure 1A). Here, we show that antigenic liposomes containing a high-affinity ligand for human CD33 prevent antigen-mediated degranulation of human mast cells. In Tg mice expressing CD33 on mast cells, antigenic liposomes with CD33 ligand (CD33L) profoundly suppressed IgE-mediated mast cell activation in passive cutaneous and passive systemic models of anaphylaxis. Moreover, these animals are completely protected from anaphylaxis induced by subsequent antigen challenges as a result of reduced antigen-specific IgE on mast cells and accelerated clearance of antigen-specific IgE from the blood. Thus, the inhibitory properties of human CD33 can be exploited to desensitize mast cells, offering new treatment strategies for allergen immunotherapy.
Display of CD33L on antigenic liposomes suppresses IgE-dependent degranulation of LAD2 cells. (A) Schematic representation of an antigenic liposome (TNP-LP, left) or an antigenic liposome displaying human CD33 ligands (TNP-LP-CD33L, right). (B) Antibody staining of various Siglecs (Sig-) on LAD2 cells analyzed by flow cytometry. (C) Flow cytometric analysis of binding of fluorescent liposomes with or without CD33L (20 μM) to LAD2 cells pretreated with isotype control or anti-CD33 (clone WM53). (D) Calcium flux of LAD2 cells induced by addition (arrow) of TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33 (2.5 μM) or PBS (1 μl). Graph shows quantification of the AUC of calcium flux induced by 2.5 μM TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L. Results were combined from 2 independent experiments. (E) Degranulation induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L as measured by the percentage of β-hex release (n = 3 per condition; values are plotted as the mean ± SD). (F) Degranulation induced by TNP-LP (30 μM), TNP-LP-CD33L (30 μM), or a mixture of TNP-LP and LP-CD33L (30 μM each). (G) Degranulation induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (30 μM) in the presence of LP-CD33L (10 μM). Control cells received buffer only. (H) Degranulation induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (30 μM) in the presence of isotype or anti-CD33 (clone WM53, 1 μg/ml). (I) Degranulation induced by Ah2-LP or Ah2-LP-CD33L (30 μM), with final Ah2 at 750 ng/ml using LAD2 cells sensitized with atopic plasma reactive to peanut (PlasmaLab). (J) Degranulation induced by OVA-LP or OVA-LP-CD33L (30 μM), with the final OVA dose at 1.5 μg/ml using LAD2 cells sensitized with human anti–OVA-IgE. Results in E–J are representative of 3 independent experiments. ***P < 0.001 and ****P < 0.0001, by 2-tailed Student’s t test (D and E) and 1-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test (F–J). α, anti; Max, maximum.
CD33 ligands displayed on antigenic liposomes suppress IgE-dependent degranulation of mast cells. To test the nanoparticle platform for suppressing mast cell activation, we used the human LAD2 mast cell line, which expresses CD33 and several other human Siglecs (Figure 1B). For liposomal nanoparticles formulated to display both antigen and CD33L, we selected trinitrophenol (TNP) as the antigen and a CD33L comprising a sialic acid analog with substituents on the sialic acid at the C-9 and C-5 positions that binds to CD33 with high affinity and selectivity (30). CD33L and TNP were covalently coupled to PEGylated lipid–1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (PEG-DSPE) (Supplemental Figure 1, A and B; supplemental material available online with this article; https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI125456DS1). Liposomes with TNP only (TNP-LP), CD33L only (LP-CD33L), or both (TNP-LP-CD33L) were prepared by mixing all lipids prior to hydration and extrusion through controlled pore membranes (26, 30).
Liposomes with CD33L containing Alexa Fluor 647–conjugated (AF647-conjugated) lipid (Supplemental Figure 1C) bound strongly to CD33 expressed on Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, but not to cells expressing CD33 without the conserved arginine (R119A) required for ligand binding (Supplemental Figure 1, D and E), or to CHO cells expressing various murine Siglecs (Supplemental Figure 1F). We observed that liposomes with CD33L bound strongly to LAD2 cells and that binding was blocked with CD33-blocking antibodies (Figure 1C and Supplemental Figure 1, G and H).
To evaluate the impact of the CD33L on antigen-induced mast cell activation, we sensitized LAD2 cells with anti–TNP-IgE. Using calcium flux as a measure of activation, TNP-LP induced strong activation, and addition of the CD33 ligand TNP-LP-CD33L strongly suppressed activation (Figure 1D). Similarly, we found that TNP-LP strongly induced degranulation of LAD2 cells, as measured by the release of β-hexosaminidase (β-hex), which was suppressed when CD33L was present (Figure 1E).
To further assess the importance of presenting the antigen and CD33L on the same liposome, we compared TNP-LP, TNP-LP-CD33L, and a mixture of TNP-LP and liposomes containing only CD33L (LP-CD33L). While CD33L strongly suppressed degranulation when TNP and CD33L were presented on the same liposome (TNP-LP-CD33L), it had no significant inhibition of degranulation when present on separate liposomes (LP-CD33L) (Figure 1F). Furthermore, pretreatment of LAD2 cells with LP-CD33L had no impact on degranulation induced by TNP-LP, but promoted degranulation by TNP-LP-CD33L, negating the inhibitory impact of CD33L on the same liposome (Figure 1G). Likewise, pretreatment of LAD2 cells with anti-CD33 antibodies neither enhanced nor inhibited degranulation induced by TNP-LP, but promoted degranulation by TNP-LP-CD33L (Figure 1H and Supplemental Figure 2, A–C). These results suggest that prior addition of anti-CD33 or LP-CD33L ligates and sequesters CD33 and prevents its recruitment to the IgE-FcεRI complex by TNP-LP-CD33L, preventing the suppression of activation and degranulation by CD33L.
To test the generality to common food allergens, the major peanut allergen Ah2 and OVA were coupled to PEGylated lipid (26, 28). Because of the formulation, a density of 0.1 mole percentage of either PEGylated protein allergen was formulated into liposomes as Ah2-LP or OVA-LP with or without CD33L. Unlike TNP-LP, Ah2-LP and OVA-LP were able to induce maximum 15%–17% degranulation using LAD2 cells sensitized with atopic human serum from peanut-sensitized patients (PlasmaLab) or anti–OVA-IgE (clone 11B6), respectively. We attribute the lower extent of degranulation to reduced allergen cross-linking due to the lower density of the antigen compared with 0.4% TNP-PEG-DSPE. However, in both cases, degranulation was strongly suppressed if the CD33L was copresented with the antigen (Ah2-LP-CD33L or OVA-LP-CD33L) (Figure 1, I and J). Pretreatment of LAD2 cells using anti-CD33 antibodies neither enhanced nor inhibited degranulation induced by OVA-LP, but permitted degranulation induced by OVA-LP-CD33L, suggesting that anti-CD33 blocks recruitment of CD33 to the anti–OVA-IgE–FcεRI complex. (Supplemental Figure 2D).
We next asked whether treatment with TNP-LP-CD33L desensitized LAD2 cells to subsequent antigen challenge. LAD2 cells sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE were pretreated with buffer control or TNP-LP-CD33L for 1 hour, followed by washing and challenge with TNP-BSA (Biosearch Technologies). Cells pretreated with buffer alone showed a strong induction of degranulation, while those pretreated with TNP-LP-CD33L were completely desensitized to challenge by TNP-BSA (Supplemental Figure 3A).
To determine whether desensitization was antigen specific, we sensitized LAD2 cells with both anti–TNP-IgE and anti–OVA-IgE. The cells were first treated with buffer or TNP-LP-CD33L and then challenged with soluble OVA. Pretreatment with TNP-LP-CD33L partially inhibited degranulation induced by OVA (Supplemental Figure 3B), suggesting that desensitization was at least partially antigen specific (31). Using cells sensitized with both anti–TNP-IgE and anti–OVA-IgE, we assessed the amount of these IgEs remaining on the surface of mast cells using fluorescent TNP-LP (AF488) and OVA-LP (AF647) following treatment of the cells with TNP-LP, TNP-LP-CD33L, or LP-CD33L. We found that prior treatment of cells with TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L abolished binding of TNP-LP (AF488) but had no impact on binding of OVA-LP (AF647) (Supplemental Figure 3C). Also, prior treatment with LP-CD33L had no impact on binding of either TNP-LP or OVA-LP. The results show that exposure to an antigenic (TNP) liposome either blocked or caused endocytosis of the respective IgE-FcεRI complex but had no effect of the surface presentation of an IgE to another antigen (32, 33).
Tg mice with mast cells expressing functional human CD33. In order to evaluate the impact of antigenic nanoparticles with CD33L in mouse models of anaphylaxis, we developed a Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33–Tg mouse. cDNA encoding full-length human CD33 (GenBank: BC028152.1) was inserted into the Rosa26 locus through homologous recombination in PRX embryonic stem (ES) cells from a C57BL/6N background (34). The translation of CD33 under the CAG promoter was controlled by a Stopfl/fl cassette placed upstream of CD33, and translation could be monitored by a frt-flanked IRES-EGFP cassette placed downstream of CD33 (Supplemental Figure 4A). Insertion of the transgene into the Rosa26 locus was confirmed by both Southern blotting and PCR (Supplemental Figure 4, B and C). Mice with germline transmission of the Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33 gene were maintained on a C57BL/6 background. To express CD33 on mast cells, the Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33–Tg mice were crossed with Mcpt5-Cre mice (35, 36). Mice bearing the Mcpt5-Cre+/–R26-CD33+ genotype are referred to hereafter as CD33-Tg mice. Unless otherwise stated, Mcpt5-Cre–R26-CD33+ littermates were used as controls (control-Tg mice).
To characterize the expression of CD33, we analyzed peritoneal cells by flow cytometry. Compared with peritoneal mast cells from C57BL/6J mice, control-Tg mice showed no expression of the transgene as evidenced by the lack of GFP expression, but 90% of the mast cells from CD33-Tg mice were GFP+ (Figure 2, A and B). We found that control-Tg and CD33-Tg mice had similar mast cell numbers compared with the numbers detected in C57BL/6J mice (Figure 2C). Consistent with GFP expression, CD33 was expressed on peritoneal mast cells from CD33-Tg mice but not on other cell types from CD33-Tg mice or on any cells from control-Tg mice (Figure 2D). In contrast to human mast cells, which express several human Siglecs, peritoneal mast cells and bone marrow–derived mast cells (BMMCs) from C57BL/6J mice did not express detectable murine CD33 or any other murine Siglec (Supplemental Figure 4, D and E). Fluorescent liposomes with CD33L bound strongly to peritoneal mast cells from CD33-Tg mice but did not bind to mast cells from control-Tg mice (Figure 2E).
Tg mice with mast cells expressing functional human CD33. (A) Flow cytometric analysis of GFP expression on representative peritoneal mast cells harvested from C57BL/6J, control-Tg (Mcpt5-Cre–Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33+), and CD33-Tg (Mcpt5-Cre+/–Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33+) mice. Mast cells were defined as PI–CD45+c-Kit+. Baseline GFP signal was determined by mast cells from C57BL/6J mice. (B) Quantification of the percentage of GFP+ peritoneal mast cells from mice of the 3 genotypes. Tg mice bearing 1 or 2 copies of CD33 were used. Both male and female mice 8 weeks or older were analyzed, with no difference observed. (C) Numbers of peritoneal mast cells from the same mice of the 3 genotypes as in B. (A–C) Results were compiled from 6 experiments. (D) Staining of peritoneal cells harvested from control-Tg or CD33-Tg mice with anti-CD33 (clone WM53) or isotype control, as analyzed by flow cytometry. (E) Binding of fluorescent liposome, with or without CD33L (20 μM), to peritoneal mast cells (c-Kit+FcεRI+CD45+). (F) Degranulation of CD33+ BMMCs induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L. (G) Cytokine induction of CD33+ BMMCs following treatment with TNP-LP (40 μM), TNP-LP-CD33L (40 μM), LP-CD33L (40 μM), or a mixture of TNP-LP and LP-CD33L (40 μM each). Supernatant from the unstimulated cells was subtracted as a background. (H) Degranulation of CD33+ BMMCs induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (30 μM) in the presence of anti-CD33 (2 μg/ml). (I and J) Cytokine production of CD33+ BMMCs induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (40 μM) in the presence of anti-CD33 (10 μg/ml). Supernatant from untreated cells was subtracted as a background. Results shown are representative of 3 (D–G) or 2 (H–J) independent experiments. (F–J) Values are plotted as the mean ± SD (n = 3 per condition). ***P < 0.001 and ****P < 0.0001, by 2-tailed Student’s t test (F) and 1-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test (C and G–J).
To determine whether CD33 was functional in murine mast cells, BMMCs from CD33-Tg mice were prepared with IL-3–conditioned media (37). After 4 weeks of culturing, more than 90% of the cells were c-Kit+FcεRI+ and 20%–50% were CD33+GFP+ (Supplemental Figure 4F). These cells were then sorted to obtain 100% GFP+ BMMCs for in vitro experiments. Fluorescent liposomes with CD33L bound to GFP+ BMMCs but did not bind to GFP– BMMCs (Supplemental Figure 4, G and H).
In BMMCs sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE, we observed that TNP-LP strongly induced degranulation, but with copresentation of the CD33L (TNP-LP-CD33L), we found that degranulation was profoundly suppressed (Figure 2F). Similarly, induced release and production of TNF-α, IL-4, IL-6, and IL-13 by TNP-LP were strongly suppressed by copresentation of CD33L (Figure 2G). In contrast, CD33 on separate liposomes (LP-CD33L) did not enhance or inhibit TNP-LP–induced cytokine production (Figure 2G). Likewise, monoclonal anti-CD33 antibodies (clones P67.6 and WM53) neither caused cytokine production by themselves nor inhibited TNP-LP–induced degranulation or cytokine production, but rather permitted the induction of degranulation and cytokine production by TNP-LP-CD33L, abrogating the suppression mediated by CD33L (Figure 2, H–J). These results show that human CD33 functions as an inhibitory receptor on murine mast cells in a manner similar to that observed with human LAD2 cells (Figure 1).
Recruitment of CD33 suppresses IgE/FcεRI signaling. Antigen-mediated aggregation of IgE-FcεRI stabilizes the IgE-FcεRI complex in lipid rafts with Src kinases that initiate the signaling cascade (38). The immunoreceptor tyrosine–based activation motifs (ITAMs) in the cytoplasmic tails of the FcεRI receptor, when phosphorylated by Src kinases, recruit splenic tyrosine kinase (Syk), which leads to the phosphorylation of downstream kinases (7). To assess the role of CD33 recruitment on the signaling cascade, we performed Western blot analysis of selected kinases that result in degranulation (PLCγ-1 and PLCγ-2) and cytokine production (MEK, ERK, JNK, and AKT) (7, 39, 40). Indeed, we found that TNP-LP strongly induced Syk phosphorylation using LAD2 cells or CD33+ murine BMMCs sensitized with anti–TNP-IgEs. Recruitment of CD33 (TNP-LP-CD33L) resulted in a partial reduction of Syk phosphorylation in LAD2 cells (Figure 3, A and B) and CD33+ BMMCs (Figure 3C), which led to a profound reduction in phosphorylation of downstream kinases. LP-CD33L did not induce phosphorylation of any kinases in either LAD2 cells (Figure 3B) or BMMCs (Figure 3C), demonstrating that ligation of CD33 alone did not initiate or suppress signaling.
Recruitment of CD33 suppresses IgE/FcεRI signaling. (A) Phosphorylation of Syk, PLCγ1, MEK, and ERK in LAD2 cells after a 3-, 10-, or 30-minute stimulation using TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (2 μM), as evaluated by Western blotting. (B) Phosphorylation of Syk and ERK in LAD2 cells after a 10-minute stimulation using TNP-LP, TNP-LP-CD33L, or LP-CD33L (2 μM), as evaluated by Western blotting. (C) Phosphorylation of Syk, PLCγ1, PLCγ2, JNK, AKT, and ERK in CD33+ BMMCs cells after a 10-minute stimulation with TNP-LP, TNP-LP-CD33L, or LP-CD33L (2 μM), as evaluated by Western blotting. (A–C) Total Syk and ERK were used as loading controls. (D–F) Proposed mechanisms of IgE/FcεRI signaling induced by antigenic liposomes and recruitment of CD33 by CD33L. (D) TNP-LP stabilizes the anti–TNP-IgE–FcεRI complex in lipid rafts with Src kinases that initiate the FcεRI signaling cascade. We propose that CD33 has no basal impact on signaling, because it is not constitutively localized in the same microdomain with FcεRI. (E) TNP-LP-CD33L recruits CD33 to the anti–TNP-IgE–FcεRI immunological synapse. Our results suggest that the cytoplasmic ITIMs of CD33 were phosphorylated by Src kinases and then recruited tyrosine phosphatases such as Shp-1, which dephosphorylated Syk, and other kinases. (F) Proposed model showing that monoclonal anti-CD33 antibodies (or LP-CD33L) block recruitment of CD33 to the IgE-FcεRI complex and enable mast cell degranulation induced by TNP-LP-CD33L.
The results suggest that CD33 and FcεRI are not colocalized in the same membrane microdomain and that CD33 does not constitutively suppress FcεRI signaling (Figure 3D). We propose that when CD33 is recruited to the lipid rafts of the IgE-FcεRI complex by CD33L on antigenic liposomes, the cytoplasmic ITIMs of CD33 are phosphorylated by local Src kinases, resulting in the recruitment of tyrosine phosphatases such as Shp-1 (41, 42), which dephosphorylate kinases involved in the FcεRI signaling cascade (Figure 3E). Monoclonal anti-CD33 antibodies (or LP-CD33L) block the recruitment of CD33 to IgE-FcεRI, thereby enabling TNP-LP-CD33L–induced mast cell activation (Figure 1, F–H, and Figure 3F).
Suppression of IgE-mediated anaphylaxis. To determine whether antigenic liposomes with CD33L could suppress mast cell activation in vivo, we used a passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) model. Mice were sensitized in 1 ear with anti–TNP-IgE, while the other ear received a PBS mock injection. The next day, the mice were given liposomes in Evans blue dye (Figure 4A). In mice with mast cells that do not express CD33 (control-Tg and Mcpt5-Cre–R26-CD33+ mice), both TNP-LP and TNP-LP-CD33L induced vascular leakage in ears sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE (Figure 4, B and C). In contrast, in mice with mast cells expressing CD33 (CD33-Tg and Mcpt5-Cre+/–R26-CD33+ mice), TNP-LP induced vascular leakage in ears sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE, but TNP-LP formulated with CD33L (TNP-LP-CD33L) produced no significant vascular leakage in anti–TNP-IgE–sensitized ears (Figure 4, D and E). The results demonstrate that local mast cell activation is prevented when CD33L is codisplayed with antigen.
Suppression of IgE-mediated anaphylaxis. Display of CD33L on antigenic liposomes suppresses PCA and PSA in CD33-Tg mice (Mcpt5-Cre+/–Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33+), but not in control-Tg mice (Mcpt5-Cre– Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33+). Mice bearing 1 or 2 copies of the CD33 transgene were used. In I, Mcpt5-Cre+/– mice expressing human CD33 (CD33-Tg) were crossed with Ptpn6fl/fl mice to yield mice with mast cells expressing CD33 and no Shp-1 (CD33-Tg/Shp-1–KO). (A) Injection scheme for the PCA model. The genotypes of the mice were determined by PCR after the experiments. (B) Representative images of vascular leakage induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (50 μg) in control-Tg mice. (C) Quantification of local mast cell activation (absorbance at 650 nm) induced by TNP-LP (50 μg, n = 14) or TNP-LP-CD33L (50 μg, n = 28) in control-Tg mice. (D) Representative images of vascular leakage induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (50 μg) in CD33-Tg mice. (E) Quantification of local mast cell activation (absorbance at 650 nm) induced by TNP-LP (50 μg, n = 21) or TNP-LP-CD33L (50 μg, n =27) in CD33-Tg mice. (F) Injection scheme for the PSA model. (G–I) Decrease in rectal temperature induced by TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (150 μg) in control-Tg mice (G), CD33-Tg mice (H), and CD33-Tg mice lacking Shp-1 (I) that were sensitized with 10 μg anti–TNP-IgE. (G–I) Values are plotted as the mean ± SEM at the indicated time points. Data are from 1 experiment (G and I) or were compiled from 3 (H) or 9 sets of experiments (C and E). ***P < 0.001 and ****P < 0.0001, by 1-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test (C and E), repeated-measures (RM) 2-way ANOVA (G and H), and RM 2-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test (I).
We used a passive systemic anaphylaxis (PSA) model to assess global mast cell activation. Mice were sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE, and the next day baseline rectal temperatures were measured, and mice were treated with liposomes (Figure 4F). We observed that TNP-LP strongly induced a decrease in rectal temperature that was dependent on the amount of anti–TNP-IgE given in the sensitization step and the dose of TNP-LP in the challenge step (Supplemental Figure 5, A and B). Mice remained sensitized to TNP-LP if the challenge was delayed for 7 days (Supplemental Figure 5C).
The impact of the CD33 ligand was minimal in mice with no expression of CD33 (control-Tg mice), since both TNP-LP and TNP-LP-CD33L induced a similar degree of systemic anaphylaxis (Figure 4G). In CD33-Tg mice, TNP-LP induced a degree of anaphylaxis similar to that seen in control-Tg mice (Supplemental Figure 5D). In contrast, TNP-LP-CD33L did not trigger systemic anaphylaxis in CD33-Tg mice (Figure 4H and Supplemental Figure 5E), demonstrating potent CD33L-mediated suppression of mast cell degranulation and anaphylaxis.
To investigate whether the tyrosine phosphatase Shp-1 is involved in CD33/CD33L-mediated inhibition of mast cell degranulation, CD33-Tg (Mcpt5-Cre+/–R26-CD33+) mice were mated with Ptpn6fl/fl mice (43). Since Ptpn6fl/fl mice produce no Shp-1 if cells express Cre recombinase, breeding Ptpn6fl/fl mice with CD33-Tg mice results in deletion of Shp-1 only in mast cells (CD33-Tg SHP-1–KO mice). As seen in Figure 4I, while TNP-LP-CD33L produced no anaphylaxis in CD33-Tg mice, it induced a level of anaphylaxis in the CD33-Tg Shp-1–KO mice that was similar to that induced in the control-Tg mice that expressed no CD33 (Figure 4I). These results suggest that Shp-1 plays a key role in CD33-mediated inhibition of mast cell degranulation (Figure 3E).
Antigenic liposomes with CD33 ligand desensitize mice to antigen challenge. We next assessed whether antigenic liposomes with CD33L could prevent anaphylaxis upon subsequent antigen challenge in the PSA model. Initial experiments varying the dose of TNP-LP-CD33L and time of antigen challenge demonstrated that profound desensitization could be achieved (Supplemental Figure 6, A and B). Optimal desensitization could be achieved with a single dose of TNP-LP-CD33L (containing 450 μg lipids and 600 pmol TNP) (Figure 5A). Treatment of TNP-LP-CD33L was well tolerated, without a significant decrease in rectal temperature, and subsequent challenges with TNP-LP caused no anaphylaxis, including challenge 24 hours later with a high dose of antigen (1% TNP-LP) that caused death in 7 of 9 untreated mice (Figure 5B).
Antigenic liposomes with CD33L desensitize CD33-Tg mice to antigen challenge. (A) Injection scheme for desensitization to TNP. CD33-Tg mice were used in the TNP-LP-CD33L–treated group (red). Both CD33-Tg and control-Tg mice were used in the 2 untreated groups (black, gray). (B) Changes in rectal temperature induced by treatment or the challenges indicated in A. (C) Injection scheme to determine antigen specificity of desensitization. CD33-Tg mice were used in the OVA-LP-CD33L–treated group (red circles and squares). Both CD33-Tg and control-Tg mice were used in the untreated group (gray circles and squares). (D) Rectal temperature induced by the treatment or challenge illustrated in C. (B and D) Values are plotted as the mean ± SEM. (E) Injection scheme used to evaluate the impact of TNP-LP-CD33L on mast cell frequency and anti–TNP-IgE on mast cells. Control mice received 200 μl PBS. (F) Frequencies of mast cells from peritoneal fluid from mice treated in E. Mast cell frequencies were determined by c-Kit+CD45+PI– cells. (G) In vitro binding of fluorescent TNP-LP (20 μM) to peritoneal mast cells harvested from mice treated as illustrated in C. (H) MFI of fluorescent TNP-LP binding to peritoneal mast cells quantified in G. The background was determined using untreated cells from a naive mouse. (I) Serum anti–TNP-IgE quantified prior to and 6 hours and 24 hours after treatment with TNP-LP-CD33L (450 μg) using CD33-Tg mice sensitized with 10 μg anti–TNP-IgE. Control mice received 200 μl PBS. Data in B were compiled from 2 experiments. Data are representative of 2 (F–H) or 3 (I) independent experiments. **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, and ****P < 0.0001, by RM 2-way ANOVA (B), RM 2-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test (D), and unpaired, 2-tailed Student’s t test (F–I).
We next assessed the ability of antigenic liposomes with CD33L to desensitize mice to a common egg allergen, OVA (Gal d 2) (44) (Supplemental Figure 6C). In mice sensitized with anti–OVA-IgE, treatment with OVA-LP-CD33L (containing 150 μg lipid and 9 μg OVA) did not cause significant anaphylaxis, and subsequent challenges with OVA-LP 5.5 hours later or 5 mg OVA at 24 hours caused no anaphylaxis (Supplemental Figure 6D). The results demonstrate that treatment with antigenic liposomes with CD33L desensitizes mice to subsequent antigen challenge.
To determine whether the desensitization is antigen specific in vivo, mice sensitized with both anti–TNP-IgE and anti–OVA-IgE were treated with OVA-LP-CD33L, and after resting for 5.5 hours, the mice were challenged with either OVA-LP or TNP-LP (Figure 5C). We observed that treatment with OVA-LP-CD33L produced no anaphylaxis (Figure 5D, left). Upon subsequent challenge with OVA-LP, the treated mice had no significant anaphylaxis relative to the untreated controls, whereas challenge with TNP-LP induced anaphylaxis in both the untreated and treated mice (Figure 5D, right). While the degree of anaphylaxis was milder in the treated mice, the difference was not statistically significant. These results suggest that desensitization caused by antigenic liposomes with CD33L is antigen specific.
To investigate the mechanism of desensitization, anti–TNP-IgE–sensitized CD33-Tg mice were treated with 450 μg TNP-LP-CD33L or PBS. Six hours after treatment, peritoneal cells were collected and then incubated with fluorescent TNP-LP, and mast cells were analyzed by flow cytometry (Figure 5E). We observed that mast cell frequencies in the peritoneum were similar in PBS- and TNP-LP-CD33L–treated mice (Figure 5F). TNP-LP strongly bound to mast cells harvested from PBS-treated mice but did not bind significantly to mast cells harvested from TNP-LP-CD33L–treated mice (Figure 5, G and H). The results are consistent with results for LAD2 cells (Supplemental Figure 3C), which showed that TNP-LP-CD33L either causes endocytosis of the anti–TNP-IgE–FcεRI complex (32, 33) or remains bound to the complex on the mast cell surface, blocking binding of TNP-LP.
Since mice are passively sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE intravenously in the PSA model, we reasoned that the antigenic liposomes (TNP-LP-CD33L) might also bind the serum anti–TNP-IgE and alter its circulatory half-life. To assess this, we measured the serum levels of anti–TNP-IgE in PBS- and TNP-LP-CD33L–treated animals over time. In the PBS-treated animals, the serum half-life of anti–TNP-IgE was 6 hours, which was consistent with the reported half-life of infused IgE (45). In contrast, TNP-LP-CD33L accelerated the clearance of serum anti–TNP-IgE (Figure 5I). Thus, TNP-LP-CD33L has a direct impact on removing or blocking anti–TNP-IgE immobilized on mast cells and accelerates clearance of anti–TNP-IgE from the blood, precluding the resensitization of mast cells.
CD33 is expressed on human skin and lung mast cells and inhibits IgE-mediated airway bronchoconstriction. In view of the potent activity of CD33 in the suppression of mast cell activation in the murine models, we sought to extend the relevance to human mast cells. CD33 expression has been previously demonstrated on cultured human CD34+ or cord blood–derived mast cells (23, 46), gastrointestinal mast cells (47), healthy/neoplastic bone marrow mast cells, and lung mast cells (22, 48). We performed flow cytometry to evaluate the expression of CD33 and other Siglecs on human mast cells isolated from surgically derived samples of discarded human breast, foreskin, facial, and abdominal skin from 10 individuals. Consistently high expression levels of CD33 and Siglec-6, -7, and -8 were detected on human skin and low levels of CD22 and Siglec-5 in skin from all samples (Figure 6, A and B).
CD33 is expressed on human mast cells and inhibits IgE-mediated human airway bronchoconstriction. (A) Flow cytometric analysis of mast cells isolated from discarded human skin (c-KithiFcεRI+ gated on PI–CD45+CD3–CD19–CD56– cells) (left) and overlay of isotype control and anti-CD33 staining of gated mast cells (right). (B) MFI of antibody staining of Siglecs on mast cells isolated from skin that was discarded following surgical procedures (n = 1 to 10 donors). (C) Time course of the percentage of bronchoconstriction of hPCLSs. Lung slices were sensitized with human IgE (4 mg/ml, gray) or anti–TNP-IgE (10 μg/ml, black and red) with recombinant human SCF (200 ng/ml, R&D Systems) overnight. Slices were challenged with anti–human IgE (20 μg/ml, gray), TNP-LP (50 μM, black), or TNP-LP-CD33L (50 μM, red) over a 10-minute period. The airway luminal area over time was compared with the baseline luminal area and expressed as the percentage of bronchoconstriction. Values represent the mean ± SEM. (D) AUC induced by the indicated treatments. AUC values below 0 are plotted as 0. (E) Percentage of bronchoconstriction induced by the indicated agents at 10 minutes. (F) Following stimulation with the indicated reagents, the percentage of bronchoconstriction induced by CCh (0.1 mM) was measured. *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01, by 1-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test (D–F). Gating of skin mast cells in A is representative of the 10 donors. Data in C–F were compiled from 5 or 9 lung slices from 2 donors.
We next assessed whether endogenous CD33 expression levels were sufficient for TNP-LP-CD33L to inhibit IgE-FcεRI–dependent mast cell–mediated bronchoconstriction in human precision-cut lung slices (hPCLSs) ex vivo (49). As a positive control, we found that anti-IgE induced strong bronchoconstriction of slices sensitized with human IgE, and TNP-LP induced similar levels of bronchoconstriction in slices sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE. Strikingly, TNP-LP-CD33L suppressed bronchoconstriction to baseline levels (Figure 6, C–E) but had no effect on bronchoconstriction induced by subsequent addition of carbachol (CCh) (Figure 6F), demonstrating that the tissues remained capable of constriction. Collectively, these data demonstrate that endogenous levels of CD33 are sufficient to inhibit IgE-dependent activation of lung mast cells.
Mast cells play a central role in IgE-mediated allergic responses (5, 7–9, 15), leading to life-threatening anaphylaxis in 2% to 5% of the US population in their lifetime (3, 4). Currently, there are no approved drugs that directly target mast cells for desensitization of allergic responses. A temporary acute method of desensitization called rapid desensitization is used for patients with allergies to life-saving medicines and involves a gradual increase in allergen doses over 3 to 4 hours to achieve a therapeutic dose (50). Allergen immunotherapy is used to induce prolonged antigen unresponsiveness and involves weekly subcutaneous or sublingual administration of allergen under medical supervision to monitor signs of anaphylaxis, with a slow increase of the dose to a plateau level that is continued for several years. The goal is to attain unresponsiveness to antigen by inducing Tregs and/or anti–allergen IgG4 to sequester antigen (12). For standard allergen immunotherapy, the prolonged treatment regimen under medical supervision for anaphylaxis is accompanied by poor patient compliance, and sensitivity often returns after the regular dosing of antigen ends (12). Reducing serum IgE levels with omaluzimab shows promise for accelerating the dose escalation in allergen immunotherapy (51, 52). One strategy to reduce the risk of anaphylaxis during allergen immunotherapy is to introduce allergens under the cover of small-molecule inhibitors targeting kinases involved in FcεRI signaling (53–56). However, it remains to be seen whether kinase inhibitors are as efficacious and well tolerated in the primary treatment of allergies (14).
Here, we show that liposomes displaying both allergen and ligands for CD33 prevent the activation of IgE-sensitized mast cells and desensitize them to subsequent activation, while at the same time accelerating the clearance of circulating anti–allergen IgE and thus preventing resensitization. The result is a complete protection from anaphylaxis upon subsequent allergen challenge over several days. The direct effect on mast cells results from recruitment of CD33 to the IgE-FcεRI complex comprising the microdomain with activated Src kinases, resulting in a profound suppression of downstream signaling pathways that result in degranulation and cytokine expression. Ligation of CD33 with 3 different clones of anti-CD33 or with liposomes containing CD33L alone has no effect on the degranulation of cytokine expression, underscoring the importance of CD33L being codisplayed with allergen on the liposome for recruitment of CD33 to the receptor complex. In addition to suppressing signaling by the antigen codisplayed on the liposome, the mast cells are desensitized to subsequent antigen exposure. One possible mechanism was that the IgE–FcεRI-α chain was shed from the cell surface (57). Using LAD2 cells sensitized with AF555-labeled anti–TNP-IgE, we observed that TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (AF647) strongly bound to the LAD2 cells (Supplemental Figure 7, A and B) but did not decrease the AF555 signal detected from these cells (Supplemental Figure 7, C and D). Therefore, we attribute the lack of antigen responsiveness to endocytosis of the IgE-FcεRI complex (32, 33), blockage of antigen binding to residual anti–allergen IgE on the mast cell surface, or a combination of both.
The in vitro desensitization using LAD2 cells was predominantly antigen specific, while the in vivo desensitization was antigen specific. The discrepancy could be due to the amount of antigen-specific IgE per mast cell (33). LAD2 cells were cultured in the absence of IgEs, hence its FcεRI receptors were unoccupied. Therefore, anti–TNP-IgE (AF555) was able to label LAD2 cells in vitro (Supplemental Figure 7, C and D). By contrast, FcεRIs from peritoneal mast cells are already occupied with endogenous IgEs, and we were unable to directly detect anti–TNP-IgE (AF555, 5 μg) labeling of peritoneal mast cells when it was injected intravenously (data not shown).
Since mast cells are not depleted by these antigenic liposomes, it is presumed that they will eventually generate new FcεRI receptors and could be resensitized. However, because the antigenic liposomes also accelerate clearance of the antigen-specific IgE, there is no antibody in circulation for resensitizing the cells, and this accounts at least in part for the prolonged period of desensitization, lasting 2–3 days, particularly in this passively sensitized model, in which there is no replacement of the depleted antibody. It will be of interest to determine how long it takes for mast cells to become resensitized in immunized animals that will replace depleted IgE over time. In this regard, an anti-IgE analogous to omaluzimab (Xolair) could be used to deplete newly synthesized IgE to prevent resensitization.
Although human CD33 is abundantly expressed on most myeloid cells, including monocytes, DCs, eosinophils, macrophages, mast cells, and basophils, its role in the regulation of cell signaling is poorly understood (58). In a recent report evaluating the role of CD33 in myeloid cells of mice with a humanized immune system, genetic ablation of human CD33 was found to have minimal impact on innate immune functions (59). However, we show here that the inhibitory function of CD33 is highly context dependent. Expression of human CD33 in mast cells from CD33-Tg mice did not alter mast cell survival or the degree of anaphylaxis relative to control-Tg mice. Moreover, ligation of CD33 with anti-CD33 antibodies or liposomes with CD33L has little or no effect on allergen-induced mast cell activation. However, when CD33 is ligated to the IgE-FcεRI receptor complex, it potently suppresses FcεRI signaling. Thus, for basophils that express both CD33 and the FcεRI receptor, we would expect antigenic liposomes with CD33L to suppress IgE-mediated activation and degranulation to a degree equivalent to that seen with mast cells. However, for other myeloid cells that express CD33, we reason that antigenic liposomes with CD33L would have little impact, since, in the absence of an IgE-FcεRI receptor complex that recognizes the antigen, they would effectively be “seen” as liposomes that contain ligand only, which we found to have no inhibitory effect on mast cells.
Previous efforts to exploit inhibitory receptors for the suppression of IgE-mediated mast cell activation have involved the use of chimeric proteins to recruit inhibitory receptors to the IgE-FcεRI complex (14, 15). One general approach uses bispecific antibodies that ligate either IgE or the FcεRI and an inhibitory receptor (e.g., FcγRIIb or CD300a) (16–19). Here, the objective was to constitutively suppress the mast cell response by coupling the inhibitory receptor to the IgE-FcεRI complex. Another approach is to couple an allergen (e.g., cat allergen Fel d 1, peanut allergen Ara h 2, or TNP) to an antibody fragment or antibody that binds to an inhibitory receptor (e.g., FcγRIIb or allergin-1) (20, 21, 60). Although some of these constructs have shown promise in murine models, translation to humans would require uniform expression of the inhibitor on the targeted cells and limited expression on other cell types that could be the basis for off-target effects. In this regard, the FcγRIIb receptor is expressed on human intestinal mast cells but not on skin mast cells (61), and, conversely, the CD300a receptor is widely expressed on both myeloid and lymphoid cells (62). Therefore, the biodistribution of these novel biotherapeutics should be carefully studied.
In addition to CD33, human mast cells also express several other ITIM-containing Siglecs, including Siglec-6, -7, -8, and -9 (Figure 6B). Evidence to date suggests that other members of the Siglec family can also regulate mast cell responses. Indeed, antibody-mediated cross-linking of Siglec-7 and Siglec-9 to FcεRI has been shown to suppress IgE-mediated mast cell degranulation (63, 64). Likewise, antibody-mediated ligation of Siglec-8 or antibody-mediated ligation of Siglec-8 to the FcεRI receptor suppressed FcεRI-mediated calcium flux and mast cell degranulation (65). Thus, in principle, ligands for other Siglecs could substitute for CD33L in the antigenic liposomal nanoparticle platform for the suppression of mast cell–mediated anaphylaxis, making the family of Siglecs attractive targets for the development of therapeutics to treat allergies.
Mice. All mice were on a C57BL/6 genetic background. Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33 mice were generated by subcloning cDNA encoding full-length CD33 (OriGene, catalog SC122608, sequence identical to that of GenBank BC028152.1) into the AscI site of a CTV targeting vector (Addgene, plasmid 15912). Electroporation of the targeting construct into PRX ES cells (C57BL/6N background), blastocyst injections, and chimera breeding with C57BL/6J albino mice (The Jackson Laboratory, stock no. 000058) were performed according to standard protocols (66). Insertion of the targeted vector into the Rosa26 locus was confirmed by Southern blot analysis of ES cells as previously described (34). The Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33 mice were genotyped by PCR using digested tail samples. A common forward primer located in the 5′ homology region (5′-GAGCTGCAGTGGAGTAGGCG-3′) was used. The WT Rosa26 locus was identified using a reverse primer (5′-TGCTGCATAAAACCCCAGAT-3′), with a band of 370 bp. Tg mice were detected using a reverse primer located in the CAG promoter (5′-GGGCGTACTTGGCATATGAT-3′), with a band of 566 bp. Mcpt5-Cre mice were genotyped by PCR (5′-ACAGTGGTATTCCCGGGGAGTGT-3′ and 5′-GTCAGTGCGTTCAAAGGCCA-3′) as previously described (67). C57BL/6J mice were ordered from the Scripps Rodent Breeding colony. Ptpn6fl/fl mice (stock no. 008336) were genotyped by PCR according to The Jackson Laboratory’s protocol.
Antigen and sugar-lipid conjugation. The high-affinity human CD33 ligand CD33L was attached to PEG-DSPE by coupling the C5- and C9-modified trisaccharide to NHS-PEG2000-DSPE (NOF) using the conditions illustrated in Supplemental Figure 1A (30). TNP-PEG-DSPE was synthesized by coupling TNP-ε-aminocaproyl-OSu (T-1030, Biosearch Technology) to NHS-PEG2000-DSPE as illustrated in Supplemental Figure 1B. OVA and Ah2 were coupled to PEG2000-DSPE as previously described (26, 28, 29).
Liposomes. All liposomes were composed of a 57:38:5 molar ratio of distearoyl phosphatidylcholine (DSPC) (Avanti Polar Lipids), cholesterol (Sigma-Aldrich), and polyethylene glycol-distearoyl phosphoethanolamine (PEG2000-DSPE, NOF; PEG-DSPE). When antigen-PEG-DSPE or CD33L-PEG-DSPE is included in the formulation, there is a proportionate reduction in PEG-DSPE, such that PEG-DSPE is kept at 5% of the total volume. To make TNP-LP, 0.1%, 0.4%, or 1% of TNP-PEG-DSPE was added to the lipid mixture. To make LP-CD33L, 3% CD33L-PEG-DSPE was added to the lipid mixture. To copresent TNP and CD33L (TNP-LP-CD33L) on the same liposomes, both TNP-PEG-DSPE (0.1% or 0.4%) and CD33L-PEG-DSPE (3%) were added to the lipid mixture. To make fluorescently labeled liposomes, 0.1% AF647-PEG-DSPE or AF488-PEG-DSPE was added to the lipid mixture.
To assemble the liposomes, DSPC, cholesterol, and PEG-DSPE (dissolved in chloroform) were mixed, evaporated with nitrogen, and suspended in 200 μl DMSO. TNP-PEG-DSPE and/or CD33L-PEG-DSPE (DMSO stocks, stored at –20°C) were then added and lyophilized. The dried lipids were hydrated with PBS. For OVA-LP and Ah2-LP, OVA-PEG-DSPE and Ah2-PEG-DSPE were added to PBS-hydrated lipids. The mixtures were then sonicated for 5 × 30 seconds. Liposomes were passed through 800-nm, 200-nm, and 100-nm controlled pore membranes (Nuclepore, Sigma-Aldrich) 20 times per membrane using an extruder (Avanti Polar Lipids, 610023) at room temperature (RT). Liposomes were stored at 4°C to 7°C in the dark for up to 6 months.
For in vitro experiments, the quantity of liposomes used was based on the final concentration of total molar lipids of liposomes. Liposomes containing 0.1% TNP-PEG-DSPE with or without 3% CD33L-PEG-DSPE were used in Figure 1, D and F; Figures 3–6; Supplemental Figure 3; and Supplemental Figures 5–7. Liposomes containing 0.4% TNP-PEG-DSPE with or without 3% CD33L-PEG-DSPE were used in Figure 1, E, G, and H; Figure 2, F–J; and Supplemental Figure 2. Liposomes containing 3% CD33L-PEG-DSPE with or without 0.1% AF647-PEG-DSPE were used in Figure 1, C, F, and G; Figure 2, E and G; Figure 3, B and C; Supplemental Figure 1; and Supplemental Figure 3C, and Supplemental Figure 4, G and H. Liposomes containing 0.1% Ah2-PEG-DSPE with or without 3% CD33-PEG-DSPE were used in Figure 1I. Liposomes containing 0.1% OVA-PEG-DSPE with or without 3% CD33-PEG-DSPE, with or without 0.1% AF647-PEG-DSPE, were used in Figure 1J; Figure 5D; Supplemental Figure 2D; Supplemental Figure 3C; and Supplemental Figure 6D. Liposomes containing 1% TNP-PEG-DSPE were used in Figure 5B and Supplemental Figure 6B.
LAD2 and BMMC cell culture. The human LAD2 mast cell line (from Arnold Kirshenbaum, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID], NIH) was cultured using StemPro-34 SFM (Gibco, Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 2 mM l-glutamine, 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 μg/ml streptomycin, 10 mM HEPES, and 50 μΜ β-mercaptoethanol (37). To culture BMMCs, femurs from CD33-Tg mice were flushed with RPMI-1640 and cultured in media (RPMI 1640, 10% FBS, 2 mM l-glutamine, 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 μg/ml streptomycin, 10 mM HEPES, and 50 μΜ β-mercaptoethanol) supplemented with IL-3–conditioned media harvested from WEHI-3B cells for 3 to 4 weeks (37). Maturation of BMMCs was determined by flow cytometry using c-Kit and FcεRI double-positive staining. For in vitro assays, GFP+ BMMCs were sorted busing a FACSAria (BD Biosciences), and sorted cells were expanded in IL-3–conditioned media. All BMMCs were used within 6 weeks of culturing.
Human CD33 CHO cells. Full-length human CD33 was amplified from cDNA (OriGene, catalog SC122608) and subcloned into a pcDNA5/FRT/V5-His vector using the Nhe I and Age I site. The R (CGG)119 A (GCG) mutation in the variable region of CD33 was obtained using primers (5′-ATACTTCTTTGCGATGGAGAGAGGAAG-3′) and (5′-GAACCATTATCCCTCCTC-3′) and standard cloning techniques (Q5 mutagenesis, New England BioLabs). Flp-in CHO cells (Invitrogen, Thermo Fisher Scientific) were then transfected with WT or R119A CD33 containing the pcDNA5/FRT/V5-His vector with pOG44 using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen, Thermo Fisher Scientific), selected with hygromycin B (500 μg/ml, Roche), and cultured in DMEM-F12 (Gibco, Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 10% FBS, 100 U/ml penicillin, and 100 μg/ml streptomycin.
Flow cytometry. All antibodies are listed in Supplemental Table 1. Cells (<2 × 106cells/condition) were stained with antibody cocktails in FACS buffer (HBSS supplemented with 2 mM EDTA and 0.1% BSA) on ice for at least 20 minutes in the dark. Cells were then washed with FACS buffer and suspended in FACS buffer containing 0.5 μg/ml propidium iodide (PI). All data were acquired using the BD LSR II (BD Biosciences) and analyzed with Flowjo software (version 9.3.3).
Liposome-binding assay. LAD2 cells, BMMCs, CHO cells (5 × 104 to 1 × 105 cells/condition), or peritoneal cells (<2 × 106 cells/mouse) were incubated with the indicated liposomes (20 μM final liposome concentration, 37°C, 30–60 min) in media (RPMI 1640 plus 10% FBS). Cells were washed, stained with antibodies in FACS buffer if needed, and analyzed using the BD LSR II. In Figure 1C and Supplemental Figure 1, G and H, LAD2 cells were first treated with isotype control or anti-CD33 antibody (4 μg/ml in 50 μl media, 37°C, 60 min). Liposomes (40 μM, in 50 μl media) were then directly added to the cells in the presence of antibodies (37°C, 60 min). In Supplemental Figure 3C, LAD2 cells sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE and anti–OVA-IgE (clones MEB38, PMP68, and EC1, each at 500 ng/ml, overnight) were first incubated with TNP-LP, TNP-LP-CD33L, or LP-CD33L (100 μl, 20 μM, 37°C, 60 min), and TNP-LP and OVA-LP (AF488 or AF647 labeled, 100 μl, 40 μM) were then directly added to the cells (37°C, 30 min).
IgE. Murine anti–TNP-IgE (clone MEB38) was purchased from BioLegend. Murine anti–OVA-IgE (clone EC1) was purchased from Chondrex, and clone PMP68 was purchased from Bio-Rad. Human anti–OVA IgE (clone 11B6) was provided by Scott A. Smith (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA).
Calcium flux. LAD2 cells, sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE (1 μg/ml, overnight), were washed with PBS and incubated in RPMI medium containing 1%FBS, 10 mM HEPES, 1 mM MgCl2, 1 mM EGTA, and 1 μM indo-1 (Invitrogen, Thermo Fisher Scientific) at 15 × 106 cells/ml for 30 minutes in a 37°C water bath. After incubation, cells were washed with the same buffer without indo-1 and suspended in HBSS containing 1% FBS, 1 mM MgCl2, and 1 mM CaCl2 at 2 × 106 cells/ml. Cells were stored on ice, and an aliquot (400 μl) was warmed (37°C, 5 min) prior to calcium flux initiation. Cells were stimulated with TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L at a final total liposome concentration of 2.5 μM, and indo-1 fluorescence (violet versus blue) was monitored by flow cytometry for 3 minutes at 37°C. The addition of liposomes took place 10 seconds after starting the acquisition. Data were analyzed, and the AUC were calculated with FlowJo software (version 9.3.3) using the kinetics functions. The signal generated from cells that received 1 μl PBS was used to determine the level of background staining for the assay.
Degranulation. LAD2 cells (104 cells/well) or sorted GFP+ BMMCs (3 × 104 cells/well) cultured from CD33-Tg mice were sensitized with anti–TNP-IgE (1 μg/ml in 100 μl culture media overnight) in Figure 1, E–H; Figure 2, F and H; and Supplemental Figure 2, A–C. The next day, cells were washed and stimulated with the indicated liposomes in HEPES buffer (HBBS supplemented with 20 mM HEPES, 0.2 mg/ml CaCl2, 0.2 mg/ml MgSO4, and 0.4 mg/ml BSA) for 30 to 60 minutes at 37°C. Degranulation was measured as the release of β-hex, which was quantified by the digestion of its substrate 4-nitrophenyl-N-acetyle-β-glucosaminide (PNAG) (0.35 mg/ml in PBS supplemented with 8 mg/ml sodium citrate, 0.35 mg/ml, pH 4.5). The percentage of degranulation (percentage of β-hex) was determined by dividing the β-hex activity in the supernatant by that from the cell pellet (37). Cells receiving buffer only were used to determine the background for each experiment, which was less than 10%.
In Figure 1F, 30 μM TNP-LP and 30 μM LP-CD33L were premixed in HEPES buffer and then directly added to the LAD2 cells. In Figure 1G, the LAD2 cells were first treated with buffer or 20 μM LP-CD33L (in 50 μl, 37°C, 1 h) and then stimulated with 50 μl HEPES buffer containing 60 μM TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L. In Figure 1H and Figure 2H, cells were first treated with isotype control or anti-CD33 (WM53 at 2 or 4 μg/ml, in 50 μl, 37°C, 1 h) and then stimulated with 50 μl HEPES buffer containing 60 μM TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L in the presence of the antibodies. In Figure 1I, LAD2 cells were sensitized with 1:5 diluted plasma from a peanut-allergic patient (Plasma Lab, patient no. 22132, final anti–peanut IgE >20 kU/l). In Figure 1J, LAD2 cells were sensitized with human anti–OVA-IgE (clone 11B6, 1 μg/ml, overnight). In Supplemental Figure 3, A and B, LAD2 cells sensitized with anti-TNP and anti–OVA-IgE were first treated with buffer containing 5 μM TNP-LP-CD33L or buffer alone (100 μl, 37°C, 1 h) and then washed with 100 μl HEPES buffer and stimulated with TNP31BSA (Biosearch) or OVA (Worthington, 100 μl, 37°C, 1 h). Degranulation induced by 5 μM TNP-LP-CD33L was determined by different aliquots of the cells run in parallel. In Supplemental Figure 2, A–C, LAD2 cells were treated with different clones of anti-CD33 antibodies at different concentrations (in 50 μl HEPES buffer, 37°C, 1 h). TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (10 μM in 50 μl HEPES buffer) was then added to the cells in the presence of antibodies. In Supplemental Figure 2D, LAD2 cells sensitized with anti–OVA-IgE were first treated with antibodies (4 μg/ml in 50 μl, 37°C, 1 h). OVA-LP or OVA-LP-CD33L (60 μM in 50 μl) was then added to the cells in the presence of antibodies.
Peritoneal cells. After mice were euthanized by CO2 overdose, the outer skin was cut open and pulled back. The inner skin was gently lifted by forceps, and 5 ml PBS was injected into the peritoneum using a 25-gauge needle. After gentle massages, the peritoneum was placed on top of a 50-ml tube. The inner skin was then cut open with scissors. Collected cells were transferred to 15-ml tubes, pelleted (300 g, 5 min), and counted by a hemocytometer. Dead cells were excluded by trypan blue (Gibco, Thermo Fisher Scientific). Mast cell numbers in Figure 2C were determined by multiplying the total number of cells by the percentages of cells that were c-Kit+ within the PI–CD45+ gate as determined by flow cytometry.
Cytokine ELISA. Cytokines were measured as previously described (37) with some modifications. BMMCs were sensitized overnight with 1 μg/ml anti–TNP-IgE in IL-3–conditioned media. The next day, the cells were washed and stimulated with the indicated reagents in culturing media without IL-3 for 5 to 6 hours at 37°C (105 cells/100 μl). After centrifugation (300 g, 5 min), the supernatants were collected. TNF-α, IL-4, IL-6 (BioLegend), and IL-13 (R&D Systems) were measured by ELISA. All capturing and detection antibodies were used at 2 to 2.5 μg/ml. All ELISAs were developed using TMB Peroxidase Substrate (75 μl/well; Rockland) and quenched with 2 M H2SO4 (75 μl/well), and A450 was measured using a plate reader (Synergy H1, BioTek). In Figure 2, I and J, BMMCs were first incubated with isotype control or anti-CD33 (10 μg/ml, 37°C, 1 h). TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33 (final total liposome concentration at 40 μM) was added to the BMMCs in the presence of antibodies and then incubated (37°C, 5 h).
Western blot analysis. LAD2 cells or sorted GFP+ BMMCs cultured from CD33-Tg mice were sensitized overnight in culturing media containing 1 μg/ml anti–TNP-IgE. LAD2 cells or BMMCs (3 × 106 cells/condition) were washed and then stimulated with the indicated reagents (final liposome concentration of 2 μM in 500 μl culture media at 37°C) using culture media. Cells were quenched with 4°C PBS, pelleted (15,800 g, 13 s), and lysed (4°C, 30 min) in 160 μl lysis buffer (9803S, Cell Signaling Technology). Cell debris was removed by centrifugation (15, 800 g, 10 min, 4°C). LDS Sample Buffer (50 μl/sample; Bolt) and DTT (20 μl/sample, 2.5 M) were added to the cleared lysate (150 μl each) and denatured (90°C, 10 min). Whole-cell lysates (5–10 μl/lane) were run on 4% to 12% Bis-Tris Gels (Invitrogen, Thermo Fisher Scientific; 150 Volts, 90 min) and transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane. Antibodies are listed in Supplemental Table 2. Amersham ECL detection reagent and Hyperfilm (GE Healthcare) were used to develop the images.
PCA. One ear was given 25 μl PBS as a mock injection, and the other ear was given 125 ng anti–TNP-IgE (in 25 μl PBS) intradermally using insulin syringes (29G1/2, U-100, Comfort Point). The next day, 50 μg TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (200 μl of 0.33 mM liposomes) was delivered via the lateral tail vein in PBS containing 1% Evans blue dye (w/v, Chem-Impex). All mice were euthanized 60 minutes after injection. Ears were excised in small pieces, dissolved in 500 μl dimethylformamide (DMF), and shaken (>500 rpm) overnight at 37°C. A constant volume of 200 μl cleared DMF was used to measure Evans blue dye incorporation, and A650 was measured using a Synergy H1 plate reader (BioTek Instruments).
PSA. Mice were sensitized with anti-TNP or anti–OVA-IgE through tail-vein injections. The next day, after baseline rectal temperatures were measured, the indicated liposome (in 200 μl PBS/mouse) was injected via the tail vein, and systemic anaphylaxis was quantified by measuring the decrease in rectal temperature (RET-3 and BAT-12, PhysiTemp Instruments).
Dose of IgE. In Figure 4, G–I; Figure 5, B and I; Supplemental Figure 5, A, C, and D; and Supplemental Figure 6B, mice were sensitized with 10 μg anti–NP-IgE. In Figure 5D, mice were sensitized with 2 μg anti–TNP-IgE and 10 μg anti–OVA-IgE (5 μg EC1 and 5 μg PMP68). In Figure 5, E–H, mice were sensitized with 5 μg anti–TNP-IgE. In Supplemental Figure 5E, mice were sensitized with 2 μg anti–TNP-IgE. In Supplemental Figure 6D, mice were sensitized with 20 μg anti–OVA-IgE (10 μg EC1 and 10 μg PMP68).
Liposome dose. In Figure 4, G–I, and Supplemental Figure 5E, mice were given 150 μg TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L (200 μl of 1 mM liposome). In Figure 5, B and F–I, mice were treated with 450 μg TNP-LP-CD33L (200μl of 3 mM). In Supplemental Figure 6B, mice were treated with 1 or 2 injections of TNP-LP-CD33L (200 μl of 1.25 mM liposomes each). In Figure 5B and Supplemental Figure 6B, mice were challenged with 50 μg of 0.1%TNP-LP and/or 50 μg 1%TNP-LP (200 μl of 0.33 mM liposomes). In Figure 5C and Supplemental Figure 6D, mice were given 159 μg OVA-LP or OVA-LP-CD33L (200 μl of 1 mM liposomes containing 150 μg lipid and 9 μg OVA-PEG-DSPE) or 150 μg TNP-LP (200 μl of 1 mM liposomes).
Quantification of circulating anti–TNP-IgE. The amount of anti–TNP-IgE in the serum was determined by ELISA. Microplates (Greiner Bio-One, 655081) were coated with TNP31BSA (Biosearch Technology, 10 μg/ml in 50 μl PBS/well, overnight). The next day, the plates were washed 5 times with PBS-T (PBS containing 0.05% Tween-20, v/v), blocked with PBS containing 1% BSA (w/v, >2 h, RT), and then washed 5 times with PBS-T. Mice were bled prior to treatment and 6 and 24 hours after treatment. Serially diluted serum (diluted at 1:5, 1:15, and 1:45 in PBS containing 1% BSA) was loaded onto plates (4°C, overnight). Serially diluted anti–TNP-IgE antibodies were loaded as standards. The next day, after the plates were washed 5 times with PBS-T, the plates were incubated with biotin anti–mouse IgE (clone RME-1, at 2 μg/ml in 50 μl, RT, >1 h), and streptavidin-HRP (BioLegend, 405210; 1 μg/ml, >30 min, RT). Plates were then washed 5 times with PBS-T. All ELISAs were developed using TMB Peroxidase Substrate (75 μl/well; Rockland and quenched with 2M H2SO4 (75 μl/well), and A450 was measured using a Synergy H1 plate reader (BioTek).
Human skin mast cells. Discarded skin tissues (abdominal skin, face and breast skin, and foreskin) from healthy donors who had undergone plastic surgery were cut into small pieces (~5 mm) and soaked in RPMI 1640 supplemented with penicillin-streptomycin with 5 U/ml Dispase II (Roche) at 4°C overnight. The next day, the tissues were warmed up to 37°C for 2 hours and transferred to RPMI 1640 supplemented with Collagenase IV (2.5 mg/ml; Invitrogen, Thermo Fisher Scientific) and DNase I (0.5 mg/ml, Roche) for 45 minutes at 37°C with constant shaking. Disaggregated cells were then filtered through 70-μm nylon cell strainers and cultured in StemPro-34 (Invitrogen, Thermo Fisher Scientific) overnight, followed by flow cytometric analysis. All Siglec antibodies and isotype controls were PE labeled and used at 2 μg/ml. Human mast cells were defined as PI–CD45+CD19–CD3–CD56–FcεRI+c-Kithi. More than 800 events were collected within the mast cell gate.
Human airway bronchoconstriction assay. Precision cuts of human lung slices and airway constriction assays were conducted as previously described (49). In brief, lung slices were sensitized with either human IgE (Calbiochem, 401152; 4 mg/ml overnight) or anti–TNP-IgE (clone MEB38, BioLegend; 10 μg/ml overnight) in the presence of 200 ng/ml recombinant human SCF (R&D Systems). After baseline images were taken, tissues were stimulated with anti–human IgE (Sigma-Alrich, I6284) or 50 μM TNP-LP or TNP-LP-CD33L. Serial images were taken every 30 seconds for 10 minutes. Following cross-linking, the slices were tested for viability by measuring contraction induced by CCh (10–4 M; Sigma-Aldrich, C4382). Data are plotted as the percentage of bronchoconstriction time course after addition of anti–IgE or liposomes (Figure 6C). The AUC (Figure 6D) was intergraded using GraphPad Prism (xy analysis) software (GraphPad Software), and values of less than 0 are plotted as 0.
Statistics. Statistical significance was determined using GraphPad Prism (version 6.0f). A P value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. In Figure 5B and Supplemental Figure 6, B and D, when mice died from anaphylaxis, the last rectal temperature taken prior to death was used for statistical analysis.
Study approval. All animal experiments were performed in accordance with protocols approved by the IACUC of The Scripps Research Institute.
SD, MSM, and JCP designed the experiments, analyzed the data, and interpreted the results. SD performed the majority of the experiments. CJKW, WFJ, and RAP designed and performed the human lung bronchoconstriction assay. CMN and MSM provided reagents for liposome formulation. SD and JCP wrote the initial draft of the manuscript. All authors participated in editing the manuscript.
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We thank Sergey Kupriyanov and Greg Martin (The Scripps Research Institute) for their assistance with generation of the Rosa26-Stopfl/fl-CD33 mice; Bruce Bochner (Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA); Zhou Zhu (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island) for insightful discussions and providing the Mcpt5-Cre and Ptpn6fl/fl mice; Changchun Xiao and Jovan Shepherd (The Scripps Research Institute) for providing the CTV targeting vector and performing Southern blot analyses; Dean Metcalfe, Arnold Kirshenbaum, and Yun Bai (NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA) for providing LAD2 cells; Mike Kulis and Wesley Burks (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) for providing purified Ah2; Scott Smith (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA) for providing anti–OVA–human IgE (clone 11B6); Wendy Havran and Kevin Ramirez (The Scripps Research Institute); Ross Rudolph (Scripps Clinic, San Diego, California, USA) for obtaining and providing the discarded human skin samples; and Joana Juan for assistance and Jill Waalen (The Scripps Research Institute) for advice on statistical analysis. This work was supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH (P01HL107151), the NIAID, NIH (U19AI136443), and the Department of Defense (W81XWH-16-1-0303).
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Clean Burn : Introduction and Objectives
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From my studies, I conclude that humanity will continue to use gas energy fuels for a long time to come.
In that case, we need to know how to burn it cleanly, so I am starting a new phase of research and publication on this topic – “Clean Burn”.
Anybody is welcome to comment, feedback, review and contribute. It will all be Open Access.
Here is a draft version of the Introduction and Objectives.
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The Lies That You Choose
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I have had the great fortune to meet another student of the Non-Science of Economics who believes most strongly that Energy is only a sub-sector of the Holy Economy, instead of one of its foundations, and doesn’t understand why issues with the flow of commodities (which include energy resources) into the system is critical to the survival of the global economy, and that the growth in the Services Industries and Knowledge Economy cannot compensate for the depletion of freshwater, fossil fuels and other raw resources.
This person believes in Technology, as if it can fly by itself, without seeming to understand how Technological Innovation is really advanced by state investment – a democracy of focus. This otherwise intelligent learner has also failed to grasp, apparently, that the only way that the Economy can grow in future is through investment in things with real value, such as Energy, especially where this investment is essential owing to decades of under-investment precipitated by privatisation – such as in Energy – investment in both networks of grids or pipes, and raw resources. And this from somebody who understands that developing countries are being held back by land grab and natural resource privatisation – for example ground water; and that there is no more money to be made from property investment, as the market has boomed and blown.
How to burst these over-expanded false value bubbles in the mind ? When I try to talk about the depletion of natural resources, and planetary boundaries, people often break eye contact and stare vacantly out of the nearest window, or accept the facts, but don’t see the significance of them. Now this may be because I’m not the best of communicators, or it may be due to the heavy weight of propaganda leading to belief in the Magical Unrealism always taught in Economics and at Business Schools.
Whatever. This is where I’m stuck in trying to design a way to talk about the necessity of energy transition – the move from digging up minerals to catching the wind, sunlight and recycling gases. If I say, “Look, ladies and laddies, fossil fuels are depleting”, the audience will respond with “where there’s a drill, there’s a way”. As if somehow the free market (not that a free market actually exists), will somehow step up and provide new production and new resources, conjuring them from somewhere.
What are arguments that connect the dots for people ? How to demonstrate the potential for a real peak in oil, gas, coal and uranium production ? I think I need to start with a basic flow analysis. On the one side of the commodity delivery pipeline, major discoveries have decreased, and the costs of discovery have increased. The hidden underbelly of this is that tapping into reservoirs and seams has a timeline to depletion – the point at which the richness of the seam is degraded significantly, and the initial pressure in the well or reservoir is reduced to unexploitable levels – regardless of the technology deployed. On the other end of the commodities pipeline is the measure of consumption – and most authorities agree that the demand for energy will remain strong. All these factors add up to a time-limited game.
Oh, you can choose to believe that everything will continue as it always seems to have. But the Golden Age of Plenty is drawing to a close, my friend.
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Energy Security, National Security #1
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Our assiduous government in the United Kingdom has conducted a national security review, as they should, but it appears the collective intelligence on energy of the Prime Minister’s office, the Cabinet Office and the Foreign Commonwealth Office is on a scale of poor to dangerously out of date.
No, LNG doesn’t stand for “liquid natural gas”. LNG stands for Liquefied Natural Gas. I think this report has confused LNG with NGLs.
Natural Gas Liquids, or NGLs, are condensable constituents of gas-prone hydrocarbon wells. In other words, the well in question produces a lot of gas, but at the temperatures and pressures in the well underground, hydrocarbons that would normally be liquid on the surface are in the gas phase, underground. But when they are pumped/drilled out, they are condensed to liquids. So, what are these chemicals ? Well, here are the approximate Boiling Points of various typical fossil hydrocarbons, approximate because some of these molecules have different shapes and arrangements which influences their physical properties :-
Boiling Points of Short-Chain Hydrocarbons
Methane : approximately -161.5 degrees Celsius
Ethane : approximately -89.0 degrees Celsius
Propane : approximattely -42.0 degrees Celsius
Butane : approximately -1.0 degrees Celsius
Pentane : approximately 36.1 degrees Celsius
Heptane : approximately 98.42 degrees Celsius
You would expect NGLs, liquids condensed out of Natural Gas, to be mostly butane and heavier molecules, but depending on the techniques used – which are often cryogenic – some propane and ethane can turn up in NGLs, especially if they are kept cold. The remaining methane together with small amounts of ethane and propane and a trace of higher hydrocarbons is considered “dry” Natural Gas.
By contrast, LNG is produced by a process that chills Natural Gas without separating the methane, until it is liquid, and takes up a much smaller volume, making it practical for transportation. OK, you can see why mistakes are possible. Both processes operate at sub-zero temperatures and result in liquid hydrocarbons. But it is really important to keep these concepts separate – especially as methane-free liquid forms of short-chain hydrocarbons are often used for non-energy purposes.
Amongst other criticisms I have of this report, it is important to note that the UK’s production of crude oil and Natural Gas is not “gradually” declining. It is declining at quite a pace, and so imports are “certain” to grow, not merely “likely”. I note that Natural Gas production decline is not mentioned, only oil.
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Nobel Chutzpah Prize 2015
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The problem with climate change “deniers” and low carbon energy “sceptics” is that they cannot read.
Here’s Jo Nova, claiming that the United Nations and the World Bank are demanding $89 trillion “to fix climate”.
She writes, “The ambit claims know no bounds. Who else would ask for $89,000,000,000,000? If the evil “more developed” nations pay for their carbon sins, the bill for those 1.3 billion people works out at $70,000 per person by 2030 (babies included).”
A simple little diagram from the actual report and a little text, shows she is entirely wrong :-
From Section 2.1 “Infrastructure investment and global growth” :-
“The global economy will require substantial investments in infrastructure as the population and the middle class grow. An estimated US$89 trillion of infrastructure investment will be required through 2030, based on data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and analysis for the Commission (see Figure 1). This is chiefly investment in energy and cities. This estimate for the required investment is before accounting for actions to combat climate change.”
That’s before accounting for actions to combat climate change, Ms Nova. Before. I know it’s probably clanging against your internal cognitive fences, but the fact is, the world needs to spend a heap of capital in the next 20 to 30 years reviving, replacing and renewing energy systems infrastructure. That spending has to happen regardless of whether it’s low carbon spending.
And let’s read the note on Figure 1 more carefully :-
“INCLUDING OPERATING EXPENDITURES WOULD MAKE A LOW-CARBON TRANSITION EVEN MORE FAVOURABLE LEADING TO A FURTHER REDUCTION OF US$5 TRILLION, FOR OVERALL POTENTIAL SAVINGS OF US$1 TRILLION”
So, Jo Nova, the world will actually be better off if it decides to make all new energy expenditure low carbon.
Jo Nova, when will you be updating your web post ?
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Shell and BP : from “Delay and Deny” to “Delay and Distract”
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Shell, BP and some of their confederates in the European oil and gas industry have inched, or perhaps “centimetred”, forward in their narrative on climate change. Previously, the major oil and gas companies were regularly outed as deniers of climate change science; either because of their own public statements, or because of secretive support of organisations active in denying climate change science. It does seem, finally, that Shell in particular has decided to drop this counter-productive “playing of both sides”. Not that there are any “sides” to climate change science. The science on climate change is unequivocal : changes are taking place across the world, and recent global warming is unprecedented, and has almost definitely been attributed to the burning of fossil fuels and land use change.
So Shell and BP have finally realised that they need to shed the mantle of subtle or not-so-subtle denial, although they cling to the shreds of dispute when they utter doubts about the actual numbers or impacts of global warming (for example : https://www.joabbess.com/2015/06/01/shells-public-relations-offensive/). However, we have to grant them a little leeway on that, because although petrogeologists need to understand the science of global warming in order to know where to prospect for oil and gas, their corporate superiors in the organisation may not be scientists at all, and have no understanding of the global carbon cycle and why it’s so disruptive to dig up all that oil and gas hydrocarbon and burn it into the sky. So we should cut the CEOs of Shell and BP a little slack on where they plump for in the spectrum of climate change narrative – from “utter outright doom” to “trifling perturbation”. The central point is that they have stopped denying climate change. In fact, they’re being open that climate change is happening. It’s a miracle ! They have seen the light !
But not that much light, though. Shell and BP’s former position of “scepticism” of the gravity and actuality of global warming and climate change was deployed to great effect in delaying any major change in their business strategies. Obviously, it would have been unseemly to attempt to transmogrify into renewable energy businesses, which is why anybody in the executive branches who showed signs of becoming pro-green has been shunted. There are a number of fairly decent scalps on the fortress pikes, much to their shame. Shell and BP have a continuing duty to their shareholders – to make a profit from selling dirt – and this has shelved any intention to transition to lower carbon energy producers. Granted, both Shell and BP have attempted to reform their internal businesses by applying an actual or virtual price on carbon dioxide emissions, and in some aspects have cleaned up and tidied up their mining and chemical processing. The worsening chemistry of the cheaper fossil fuel resources they have started to use has had implications on their own internal emissions control, but you have to give them credit for trying to do better than they used to do. However, despite their internal adjustments, their external-facing position of denial of the seriousness of climate change has supported them in delaying major change.
With these recent public admissions of accepting climate change as a fact (although CEOs without appropriate science degrees irritatingly disagree with some of the numbers on global warming), it seems possible that Shell and BP have moved from an outright “delay and deny” position, which is to be applauded.
However, they might have moved from “delay and deny” to “delay and distract”. Since the commencement of the global climate talks, from about the 1980s, Shell and BP have said the equivalent of “if the world is serious about acting on global warming (if global warming exists, and global warming is caused by fossil fuels), then the world should agree policy for a framework, and then we will work within that framework.” This is in effect nothing more than the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has put forward, so nobody has noticed that Shell and BP are avoiding taking any action themselves here, by making action somebody else’s responsibility.
Shell and BP have known that it would take some considerable time to get unanimity between governments on the reality and severity of climate change. Shell and BP knew that it would take even longer to set up a market in carbon, or a system of carbon dioxide emissions taxation. Shell and BP knew right from the outset that if they kept pushing the ball back to the United Nations, nothing would transpire. The proof of the success of this strategy was the Copenhagen conference in 2009. The next proof of the durability of this delaying tactic will be the outcomes of the Paris 2015 conference. The most that can come out of Paris is another set of slightly improved targets from governments, but no mechanism for translating these into real change.
Shell and BP and the other oil and gas companies have pushed the argument towards a price on carbon, and a market in carbon, and expensive Carbon Capture and Storage technologies. Not that a price on carbon is likely to be anywhere near high enough to pay for Carbon Capture and Storage. But anyway, the point is that these are all distractions. What really needs to happen is that Shell and BP and the rest need to change their products from high carbon to low carbon. They’ve delayed long enough. Now is the time for the United Nations to demand that the fossil fuel companies change their products.
This demand is not just about protecting the survival of the human race, or indeed, the whole biome. Everybody is basically on the same page on this : the Earth should remain liveable-inable. This demand for change is about the survival of Shell and BP as energy companies. They have already started to talk about moving their businesses away from oil to gas. There are high profile companies developing gas-powered cars, trains, ships and possibly even planes. But this will only be a first step. Natural Gas needs to be a bridge to a fully zero carbon world. The oil and gas companies need to transition from oil to gas, and then they need to transition to low carbon gas.
Renewable Gas is not merely “vapourware” – the techniques and technologies for making low carbon gas are available, and have been for decades, or in some cases, centuries. Shell and BP know they can manufacture gas instead of digging it up. They know they can do the chemistry because they already have to do much of the same chemistry in processing fossil hydrocarbons now to meet environmental and performance criteria. BP has known since the 1970s or before that it can recycle carbon in energy systems. Shell is currently producing hydrogen from biomass, and they could do more. A price on carbon is not going to make this transition to low carbon gas. While Shell and BP are delaying the low carbon transition by placing focus on the price of carbon, they could lose a lot of shareholders who shy away from the “carbon bubble” risk of hydrocarbon investment. Shell and BP need to decide for themselves that they want to survive as energy companies, and go public with their plans to transition to low carbon gas, instead of continuing to distract attention away from themselves.
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The Price on Carbon
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Although The Guardian newspaper employs intelligent people, sometimes they don’t realise they’ve been duped into acting as a mouthpiece for corporate propaganda. The “strapline” for the organisation is “Owned by no one. Free to say anything.”, and so it seemed like a major coup to be granted an interview with Ben Van Beurden of Royal Dutch Shell, recorded for a podcast that was uploaded on 29th May 2015.
However, the journalists, outoing editor Alan Rusbridger, Damian Carrington and Terry McAllister probably didn’t fully appreciate that this was part of an orchestrated piece of public relations. The same day as the podcast was published, Shell, along with five other oil and gas companies wrote a letter to officials of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Favourable copy appeared in various places, for example, at Climate Central, The Daily Telegraph and in the Financial Times where a letter also appeared.
In the letter to Christiana Figueres and Laurent Fabius of the UNFCCC, Shell and fellow companies BP, BG Group, Eni, Total and Statoil, wrote that they appreciate the risks of the “critical challenge” of climate change and that they “stand ready to play their part”. After listing their contributions towards a lower carbon energy economy, they wrote :-
“For us to do more, we need governments across the world to provide us with clear, stable, long-term, ambitious policy frameworks. This would reduce uncertainty and help stimulate investments in the right low carbon technologies and the right resources at the right pace.”
“We believe that a price on carbon should be a key element of these frameworks. If governments act to price carbon, this discourages high carbon options and encourages the most efficient ways of reducing emissions widely, including reduced demand for the most carbon intensive fossil fuels, greater energy efficiency, the use of natural gas in place of coal, increased investment in carbon capture and storage, renewable energy, smart buildings and grids, off-grid access to energy, cleaner cars and new mobility business models and behaviors.”
The obvious problem with this call is that the oil and gas companies are pushing responsibility for change out to other actors in the economy, namely, the governments; yet the governments have been stymied at every turn by the lobbying of the oil and gas companies – a non-virtuous cycle of pressure. Where is the commitment by the oil and gas companies to act regardless of regulatory framework ?
I think that many of the technological and efficiency gains mentioned above can be achieved without pricing carbon, and I also think that efforts to assert a price on carbon dioxide emissions will fail to achieve significant change. Here are my top five reasons :-
1. Large portions of the economy will probably be ringfenced from participating in a carbon market or have exemptions from paying a carbon tax. There will always be special pleading, and it is likely that large industrial concerns, and centralised transportation such as aviation, will be able to beat back at a liability for paying for carbon dioxide emissions. Large industrial manufacture will be able to claim that their business is essential in sustaining the economy, so they should not be subject to a price on carbon. International industry and aviation, because of its international nature, will be able to claim that a carbon tax or a market in carbon could infringe their cross-border rights to trade without punitive regulatory charges.
2. Those who dig up carbon will not pay the carbon price. Fossil fuel producers will pass any carbon costs placed on them to the end consumers of fossil fuels. A price on carbon will inevitably make the cost of energy more expensive for every consumer, since somewhere in the region of 80% of global energy is fossil fuel-derived. Customers do not have a non-carbon option to turn to, so will be forced to pay the carbon charges.
3. A price on carbon dioxide emissions will not stop energy producers digging up carbon. An artificial re-levelising of the costs of high carbon energy will certainly deter some projects from going ahead, as they will become unprofitable – such as heavy oil, tar sands and remote oil, such as in the Arctic. However, even with jiggled energy prices from a price on carbon, fossil fuel producers will continue to dig up carbon and sell it to be burned into the sky.
4. A price on carbon dioxide emissions is being touted as a way to incentivise carbon capture and storage (CCS) by the authors of the letter – and we’ve known since they first started talking about CCS in the 1990s that they believe CCS can wring great change. Yet CCS will only be viable at centralised facilities, such as mines and power plants. It will not be possible to apply CCS in transport, or in millions of homes with gas-fired boilers.
5. A price on carbon dioxide emissions will not cause the real change that is needed – the world should as far as possible stop digging up carbon and burning it into the sky. What fossil carbon that still enters energy systems should be recycled where possible, using Renewable Gas technologies, and any other carbon that enters the energy systems should be sourced from renewable resources such as biomass.
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[ Video : George Marshall of the Climate Outreach Information Network launching his new book "Don’t Even Think About It" on the communication of climate change at the Harvard Book Store, whereto he had to fly, thereby causing significant personal carbon dioxide emissions. This YouTube does not feature Ian Christie, but is not entirely unrelated to his address, which is documented in the text below. ]
Ian Christie of the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group (SLRG) at the University of Surrey came to speak to the Green Christian Annual Members Meeting today under the heading “Sustainable Living : Why we struggle and how we can change”, and presided over three facilitated workshops on Church, Community and Campaigning. He was introduced as working with the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey, and having helped to pull together “Church and Earth”, the Seven Year Plan for the Church of England, as a response to the Alliance of Religions and Conservation initiative which culminated in the “Many Heavens, One Earth” Windsor Conference in November 2009. Ian Christie has also done project work with the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development and the think tank Theos. He has been environmental advisor to the Bishop of Kingston.
Ian Christie joked that his colleague Tim Jackson, who has written a best-selling book “Prosperity Without Growth”, sometimes feels he is on a permanent global tour, given the huge impact his work has had worldwide. The “paradox” is that his carbon footprint is enormous. Yet clearly there is great benefit from travel to present the messages from Tim’s research. This illustrates the clash of goods and values that is always present in our attempts to reduce our impacts and change lifestyles. Ian said that we shouldn’t beat ourselves up too much about our carbon emissions-filled lifestyles – many of us are doing reasonably well in not very promising circumstances. It’s not surprising that we haven’t made much progress in sustainable living – this is perhaps the biggest challenge humanity has set itself.
Ian said, “Between 5% and 10% of the population (and this figure hasn’t changed over the last several years) are consistently trying to live as sustainably as they can in all areas of their lives. Meanwhile, another small segment – maybe 10% – 15% don’t care at all. The other two-thirds or more, including myself, are in the middle ground. We get confused. We sometimes give up on making particular changes. We might feel that taking the trouble on environmental issues is a bit of an effort – because other signals are not there, because other people are not doing it. Anyone who thinks we can bring about environmental “conversion”, person by person – it’s too difficult.”
He went on to say, “As advocates of change, we don’t tell positive stories very well. We environmentalists have been much better at telling the alarming or apocalyptic event, rather than explaining the diagnosis of unsustainability. There’s a lack of supporting infrastructure for doing the sustainable things in everyday life. People get locked-in to high-carbon behaviours. We might want to do the green, sustainable thing but we can’t. The idea that “joy in less” is possible can seem unbelievable.” He went on to explain that, “consumption can make us feel good. More can be more. I get a thrill going into John Lewis sometimes, all those bright and shiny things. It’s amazing they’re available for sale and that I can afford them. Consumerism can feel like it is bringing real benefits. It can be fun.”
Ian Christie remarked about the RESOLVE research at Surrey on the sense of “threatened identities”, a feeling that can arise when we’re asked to change our lifestyles – an important part of our identity can seem to be at stake. There is a lack of positive incentives and collective success stories. He gave an example – one where people cooking for their families want to recreate the cosy, nourishing food of their childhoods, or feel that they are giving a ‘proper meal’ to their loved ones, and they do that by using meat. These people find it hard to be told that they need to give up eating meat to save the planet. Another example, when people are told to cut down on car driving – there is a feeling of a loss of freedom, an assault on the idea that I can go where I like and do what I want to do. “Climate change is perhaps too big, distant or complicated for us. It is certainly too much for any one person to deal with”.
Ian Christie spoke about the clash of desires and values – and that St Paul got there first (Romans 7:15-17) (and St Augustine, but paraphrased). He joked that he has discovered that many people had a dirty secret, which he calls “Top Gear Syndrome” – “you’d be surprised how many environmentalists like watching Top Gear”. He also mentioned what he termed “Copenhagen Syndrome” – where environmentalists feel that they need to attend every meeting on climate change – and so they fly there. People like to go to exotic places – many Greens included.
Ian Christie emphasised that we can’t get to sustainable living one person at a time. He said that this amounted to a “Collective Action Problem” or (CAP). He showed us an image of what is commonly called a Mexican Stand-Off – where a group of three people have their weapons at each other’s throats and nobody will back down – each of the three major groups in society thinks that the other two should take the lead. So governments think that businesses and citizens should act. And citizens think that government and businesses should act. And businesses think that their consumers and governments should act.
Ian said that there is a clear finding from social research that people feel safety in numbers – we like to feel that we fit in with our peers and neighbours – for example, in some cultures like America, people would rather make everyone feel comfortable than break out of normative behaviour or views. Individual households have a low perception of “agency” – feeling that they can make any significant change – that they don’t have sufficient capacity to act – “no clout”, as one member of the audience commented.
Ian gave some examples of attitudes of people’s attitudes on environmental lifestyles : “I will even though you won’t – even though no one else steps forward”; “I will – but it’s never enough”; “I might if you will” or even, “I know you won’t, so don’t ask me”. He said that Collective Action Problems need to be addressed by all actors needing to be engaged. He said that there would be “no single ‘best buy’ policy” and that action will tend to be in the form of “clumsy solutions”. He said that people need “loud, long and legal” signals from government, consistent messages and incentives for change.
Ian Christie said there is a community level of action possible – “communities of practice”. He recommended that we look up the CLASL research done by Defra/WWF. He mentioned “moments of change” – times of transition in life – and whether these might be appropriate times to offer support for alternative choices. He said that action by individuals cannot be guaranteed by giving messages to people as if they are only consumers, rather than citizens. If we say that something will save people money, they won’t necessarily act in ways that support a shift to sustainable lifestyles. We need to address people’s intrinsic values as well as material self-interest.
Ian talked about some of the results of the research from the DEFRA-funded SLRG project, which is coming to an end. He spoke about the evidence of “Rebound Effects”, where people make savings on their carbon dioxide emissions by energy efficiency gains or other measures, and then spend the saved money in ways that can increase greenhouse gas emissions, like taking holidays by aeroplane – he mentioned the Tesco offer to “turn lights into flights”, where people were being encouraged to buy energy efficient light bulbs in exchange for Air Miles – “it’s going to make things much worse”. He said that research showed that re-spending (reinvestment) is what matters and that we need to go to the source of the emissions, through a carbon tax, for example.
Ian Christie said that it is very limited what we can do as individual households. Lots of policymakers have thought to get through to people at moments of change – although there used to be no evidence. People’s habits and networks can be restructured for example when they move home, have a child or retire – a “habit discontinuity”. Research has now shown that there is a small but significant effect with house-movers – who are much more likely to act on information if they are given well-timed and designed information packages on green living – but only a small minority are truly motivated. He asked “how do we magnify this effect ?” The sheer act of moving house makes people amenable to change. Research has also shown that there might be a willingness amongst new parents – who would express more pro-environmental values as a result of having a new child – but are less capable of acting on these wishes. The reverse was found in those entering retirement – they wanted to live more frugally – but didn’t necessarily express this desire in terms of sustainable living.
Ian said that the “window of opportunity” for introducing lifestyle change might be quite limited, perhaps a few months – and so people would not sustain their new habits without “lifestyle support systems”. People might not want to hear from a green group, but could be open to hearing from a church, or their Health Visitor, or Mumsnet. Maybe even a hairdresser ? One project that he recommended was PECT, the Peterborough Environment City Trust, which is acting as a facilitator for encouraging changes. He said people get demotivated if they feel businesses and governments are not doing the same thing. He mentioned avenues and approaches for increasing the sense of agency : framing environmental issues in : moments of change, local food growing, community energy groups, frugality, health and well-being…
Ian Christie said that Church of England work on “Shrinking the Footprint” was poised to make fresh progress, with leadership from the new lead bishop on the environment, Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam.
Ian Christie suggested that positive activities could inspire : why could a church not turn an emergency feeding centre – a food bank – into a food hub – a place where people could come for tools, seeds and food growing group support ? What about Cathedral Innovation Centres as catalysts for sustainable living schemes ? Why not partner with the National Trust or the National Health Service over environmental issues ? He said the NHS has a Sustainable Development Strategy – “one of the best I’ve seen”. How about calling for a New Green Deal for Communities ? One reason why the Green Deal has been so poorly supported has been it has been promoted to individuals and it’s much harder to get individuals to commit and act on projects.
Ian pointed towards good intervention concepts : “safety in numbers” approaches, moments of change, congregation spaces, trusted peers in the community, consistent messages. He recommended Staying Positive : “look how far we’ve come”; we have two decisive decades ahead; Business As Usual is failing – CEOs are breaking ranks; cities are going green – and the churches are waking up to ecological challenges.
In questions, I asked Ian Christie why he only had three social groups rather than four. I said that I see businesses broken down into two categories – those that produce energy and those that consume energy to provide goods and services. I said there were some excellent sustainable development strategies coming out of the private enterprises consuming energy, such as Marks and Spencer. He said that yes, amongst the fossil energy producing companies, there is a massive challenge in responding to climate change. He pointed to Unilever, who are beginning to see themselves as pioneers in a new model of sustainable business. There is a clear divergence of interest between fossil fuel producers and companies whose core business is being put at risk by climate disruption.
When asked about whether we should try to set the economy on a “war footing” as regards climate change, Ian Christie said “we aren’t in a war like that. We ourselves, with our high-carbon consumption, are ‘the enemy’, if we want to put it like that. We are not in a process where people can be mobilised as in a war.” He said that the churches need to bring climate change into every talk, every sermon “this is how we do Christian witness”.
In discussion after the breakout workshops, Ian Christie said that we need to try to get to local opinion-formers. He said that a critical mass of communication to a Member of Parliament on one subject could be as few as 20 letters. He said that mass letter writing to MPs is one way in which others seeking to influence policy “play the game” in politics, so we must do it too. For example, we could write to our churches, our leaders, our democratic representatives, and demand a New Green Deal for Communities, and in letters to political candidates for the General Election we could say it would be a critical factor in deciding who we vote for. In the General Election in 2015, Ian said that it could be a five-way split, and that the “green issue” could be decisive, and so we should say that our vote will go to the greenest of candidates.
Ian said we should try to audit our church expertise, and that we should aim for our churches to give one clear overall narrative – not an “environmental narrative”, but one that urges us to be truly Christian. He said that it was important that church leaders talk the talk as well as walk the talk – making it normal to talk about these things – not keeping them partitioned. The weekly sermon or talk in church must tell this story. He said that people disagree for really good reasons, but that the issue was one of trying to create a setting in which disagreement can get somewhere. He mentioned the work of George Marshall and the Climate Outreach Information Network as being relevant to building narratives that work on climate change out of a silence or absence of dialogue.
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European Referendum : Corpse Factory
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So I was in a meeting on a dateless date, at an organisation with a nameless name, with some other unidentifiable people in the room with me. For some reason I had been invited, I cannot think why. Ah, yes, I can. I was invited to attend because, apparently, I am a “campaigner”. I am, allegedly, somebody who buys into the notion that communications should serve the purpose of directing public attention and support towards a particular outcome, decided in advance by a political elite. And it seems, if I believe something is right, and that a message needs communicating, I will take action, but never invoice, because I am a believer. Well let me tell you right here and now, I am not that person. I may have that reputation, but really, I despise propaganda : the deliberate formation of a murmur of Tweet starlings, or the collective wall-to-wall newspaper coverage of the same story, the scandal story hauled out to scare the horses and herd them to the salt water shore, the faux narrative of collective political or social will for change.
I want to believe that even though I am occasionally paid to communicate a story (but most often not), that my narrative, and importantly my agenda, is my own. I will not be co-opted. I shall not be defined by storytelling, I shall not be paid for spreading information – for if I were to be telling money-backed tales, I may end up peddling lies. And I do not want lies to be spoken. I am an ontologist. My ontology is :-
and not
IT IS,
There is no “therefore” in what I write. When I say “should”, like, “we should adopt renewable energy”, it’s your choice as to whether you agree with me. You shouldn’t read anything and be swayed or directed, except by the force of reason based on evidence. I am the photographer, the recorder, but not the public relations consultant. And I am especially not an unsalaried volunteer. I paint the future using my own perspective, my own understanding, my own research, my own best judgement, but I am not telling people what to think. Although I go slightly beyond merely noting and analysing what is happening, to articulate possible futures, I am not a persuader.
I do not want to write the script for the actions of the readers or listeners. I do not want to precipitate a revolution, or dehydrate the horses before leading them to the river bank. I want to describe rather than proscribe or prescribe. I want to scribe the way I see things, I do not do it in order to create waves or push buttons or light beacons. The facts should speak for themselves, and if anybody consumes my communication, they should be free to act as they feel fit, or suits. I am not a paid-for, paid-up, in-the-pocket campaigner. I am not spun round other peoples’ fingers like a talking puppet. I am a free person.
So, there I was in this meeting, and the people in the room were discussing an event that is likely to take place. It appears from some analysis that the next British Government could well be another Coalition Government, with the Conservative Party having only a shaving of a majority for rule. And when they have crossed the i’s and dotted the t’s and formed a currently impossible political marriage, which I’m guessing will involve the Green Party as well as the Liberal Democrats, then they will need to live up to their promise to hold a referendum on British participation in the Grand European Experiment – economic union with other European countries.
But nobody talks about Europe. Except to complain. In the meeting I attended, the hosts of the meeting were consulting for ways to highlight the Europe Question, and to give it a pro-Union light.
For me, it’s facile. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is just a bunch of mediocre-sized islands off the coast of the European continent. Something like 80% of UK trade is with European countries, because Europe is our gateway to the rest of the global market, and you always do the most trade with your neighbours. It’s natural. Can anybody seriously suggest we ditch the Common Market – the agreements that European countries have come to to ensure common standards of goods and services, common terms and conditions of trade and common legal processes regulating trade ? So we want to reserve some kind of sovereignty over some kinds of decisions ? Why ? The UK is heavily involved in the central European institutions and governance bodies. We have massive input. We vote for MEPs. Why should things not go our way ? And even if things don’t go perfectly our way, will the negotiated compromises be so bad ? Subsidiarity – making decisions at the lowest/best/most appropriate level of administration – that’s still going to keep a lot of British control over British affairs. Surely the UK suffers a greater risk of interference from any pan-Atlantic trade deal that it does from Europe ?
The UK have made commitments. Our Parliament has agreed that we need to work on climate change, social justice and economic stability. We have implicitly agreed that to address climate change we need Energy Change and environmental regulation; to achieve social justice we need human rights, justice, health, education and a benefits system; and for economic stability we need economic stimuli – for example, in national infrastructure projects. In terms of climate change and Energy Change there is so much we need to do. If we stay in Europe, all of this will be so much easier. Within the European project for energy market harmonisation is the work on standards to achieve gas and electricity grid harmonisation. The improvement and augmenting of interconnections between countries, and the provision of wider energy storage, will enable the balanced use of renewable energy. Governments need to create incentives for deploying renewable energy. Governments need to create mechanisms to leverage and facilitate renewable energy deployment. Without Europe, outwith Europe, it will cost us more, and be more complex. Within Europe, it will be easier.
So, in the meeting I attended, I put forward my vision : if the UK stays in Europe, it will be easier to handle problems of energy – improving and replacing infrastructure and plant, co-ordinating the uptake of new renewable energy technologies and dealing with emerging energy security issues. Why, the North Sea, as everybody knows, is draining dry, and we can only build certain levels of relationship with countries outside the European Union, such as Russia. If the UK left the EU, the EU would be competitors with the UK for Russian Natural Gas, for example. I said I thought that energy security was a good thing to explain to people and a good reason to raise support for UK’s continued participation in Europe.
So, somebody else in the meeting, who shall remain faceless and nameless, poured very cold water on this idea. They seemed to disbelieve that the UK faces risks to energy security. Instead, they suggested that the pro-Europe argument should be based on how the UK can “keep our place at the table”. How out of touch can one get, I thought to myself ? This kind of patrician argument is not going to wash. Appealing to some non-existent pride in the UK’s continued role as stakeholder in the European project is going to go down like a lead balloon. It’s a vote loser, for sure.
What most people care about first is money. Their money. Any appeal to their pockets is going to help. We live in tough times – thanks to Government austerity policy – and we still cannot get a handle on public borrowing and spending. Because of the Government’s austerity policy.
So how about we cast it like this : your energy is going to get much more expensive if the UK abandons the European community of nations. Plus, your lights could genuinely go out, unless you, the people, either as taxpayers or billpayers, fork out for new energy investments that the energy companies haven’t made for 20 years. Because of privatisation. Without taking part in the European energy market harmonisation, and the European development of new and renewable energy infrastructure, plant and networks, your bills could significantly rise/spiral out of control. If European companies were required to sell energy assets back to the UK, because the UK pulled out of Europe, we would be in a very fine mess indeed. Do you really want this kind of chaos ? Energy policy in the UK is already bad enough.
The facts are available to those who search : British production of oil and gas from the North Sea is declining at something like 6% a year. The UK became a net energy importer between 2004 and 2006 (depending on how you define it). The Netherlands will become a net Natural Gas importer in the 2020s. Norway’s Natural Gas will reach a peak some time in the 2020s. It’s no good thinking that because the UK is a “gas hub”, and that British finance can currently spin up gas imports to the UK, that this situation is going to remain true. Within 10 to 15 years, I think that the UK will face significant competition for Natural Gas supplies with other European countries. Better to be in the debating chamber, surely, rather than scratching at the wind-and-rain-splattered window from outside ? So can the UK forge a gas alliance with countries outside the European Union, and apart from Norway ? A gas import alliance that sticks ? And that isn’t demolished by competition from the rest of the European Union for gas supplies that come through pipes sitting in European Union territory ? OK, the UK might want to leave full European Union membership, and join Norway in the European Economic Area, but will this guarantee beneficial import status for Natural Gas from countries that supply the full members of the European Community ?
I said, instead of trying to talk about direct opposites – either Inside Europe or Outside Europe – let’s talk about how things can be helped by wider co-operation. The European Union was founded on energy treaties – coal and nuclear energy (and steel), and now Europe needs to move to a union forged on renewable power and Natural Gas – and later Renewable Gas – and it’s going to be so much easier to do if the UK stays at the party.
The North Sea needs re-developing. Not for oil, but for wind power. This is going to happen best with full cross-border co-operation. Already, the UK has agreed to play a large part in the “North Sea Offshore Grid” wind power project in league with Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium and France. And Luxembourg, strangely, although it doesn’t have a coast. Unlike new nuclear power, which could be decades in construction, offshore and onshore wind in Europe can be quick-build. If you want new power, you pick wind and solar. And, despite policy fumbles, this is happening. Actually, in the end, who really cares about subsidies for renewable energy, when the most capital-heavy organisations in the world start backing renewable power ? In some ways, I don’t care who brings me low carbon energy, and I don’t care if I have to pay for it through my tax or my bills, I just want it to happen. OK, offshore wind power is for the big boys, and you’re never going to get a diversity of suppliers with this project, and the dreams of decentralised energy are vapours, whisked away by giant engineering firms, but at least renewable energy is going to happen. One day people will realise that for the newspapers to rehearse the arguments of High Net Worth Individuals, and for sheep-like energy ministers to complain about onshore wind power and solar farms, is just a way to keep small electricity generators out of the energy markets, and allow the incumbent energy players to keep making profits. But when the need for a multiplicity of small energy installations becomes critical, I think this tune will change.
I can see all this. But, because I am not a spin meister, or spin meistress, or a campaigner, I’m not going to be crafting fine messages to share with my networks on this particular subject. I did start (see below), but then I thought better of it. I dislike the use of social media, web logging and journalism to push an agenda. The trouble is, I know that the people who are vehemently against the European endeavour have so many trigger arguments tested and ready to deploy, such as : immigration, regulations, budgetary demands. None of these stand up to scutiny, but they are very easy props on which to deploy Corpse Factory scares and scandals, up there with the War on Terror. The pro-European segment of the population always stays so silent. If there were to be a Referendum on Europe today, I can pretty much guarantee a kneejerk exit. The British public act collectively by reflex. They never re-analyse their position. They mob, gang and plunder.
I don’t think pro-Europe organisations know how to sell Europe. But they shouldn’t need to “sell” Europe. European membership should be an obvious best choice. So why should I try to talk up Europe ? I couldn’t have any influence, as one lone voice, against the Daily Mails, Daily Expresses and Daily Telegraphs of this world. And anyway, it’s not really my fight to fight. I don’t have a job title that reads “arch propagandist”. I am not that person. It does not become me. I prefer straight-talking, not mind-bending.
I won’t get invited back. That’s just fine. I am not a volunteer campaigner. I’m not a political pusher. I’ve only played the role of “evangelist” on climate change, renewable energy and good policy because sometimes there is little else I can think of that might help or make a difference. But I don’t have any influence. And I don’t want any. I am just going to continue telling it the way I see it. Giving my perspective. I cannot guarantee any outcomes. And anyway, I prefer democratic engagement over salesmanship. Don’t ask me to sell your ideas, your policies, your projections. I don’t want to.
Full membership of the European Union is the logical option for the United Kingdom, no matter how many tired dead donkey corpses the rabid tabloid media keep digging up to appall us all. Sooner or later, we also need to consider joining the Euro currency, and I predict we will, but I’m not your convincer on that argument, either.
“What has Europe ever done for us ?”
Common Climate : Common Cause : Common Market
On climate change, the United Kingdom has secured the Climate Change Act, legislation with broad-based support across all political parties. The UK shares the concerns of other European countries about the potential risks and impacts from climate change in our geographical region. Society-level change in response to climate change includes energy change – changing the sources and use of energy – and changing policies for land use to include planting forests and energy crops. Within the European Community, the UK has worked to secure region-wide legislation on renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste control and air quality. All of these contribute to the response to climate change, and have developed action on climate change into a common cause. In addition to regulatory change, the European Community is seeking to develop trading mechanisms to enable carbon dioxide emissions control, and it working to develop a common market in carbon.
Common Future : Common Purpose : Common Interest
Common Values : Common Opportunities : Common Voice
Common Security : Common Goals : Common Networks
Common Infrastructure : Common Society : Common Protection
Common Standards : Common Framework : Common Development
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Climbing the Concern Ladder
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How do we get things changed in a democracy ? The model of political campaigning that has been established over the last century is failing us. In the past, if there was a problem, a small group of people could create a fuss about it, march some placards to somewhere relevant, write some letters, talk to some dignitaries, chain themselves to some railings, occupy a lobby, get some press, and after some years, maybe, get something done.
These days there are just too many complaints for them all to be heard. Philanthropic, charitable and political messages crowd the stage. In this age of social media, the campaign metaphor has been replaced by a ladder of concern. Concern is expressed. Hopefully others will find that they too are sufficiently concerned, and reflect that concern through some medium. And slowly, it is hoped, this concern climbs the ladder of attention, until it is visible, audible. The entitled and endowed middle classes catch the concern, and repeat it. Lots of emails fly. George Monbiot writes about it in The Guardian. Some speeches are made at serious meetings. Angelina Jolie is invited to grace a conference. And then, hopefully, this concern hits the people who have some kind of leverage over the problem, and they act.
Action is almost guaranteed if the concern is the result of a specific outrage, committed by a specific person or group, and has a specific solution. But otherwise, who knows ? How universal and impactful does a concern need to be before it gets acted upon ? And surely some things don’t need campaigns, because the governments already know enough about problems such as people trafficking, slavery, animal welfare, crime and torture ? After all, things such as prostitution and illegal drug trade are included in national economic statistics.
I took public transport today in London and I was doused in outrage pouring from advertisements asking for charitable giving to prevent the inhuman practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). As I read these appeals, I felt two overwhelming sensations – one of intense anger that children are being permanently injured because of insane and unjustifiable, hateful beliefs about female sexuality. And a second feeling of dragging despair that giving a small donation every month to this organisation would have very little impact on abusive culture, which leads to many forms of violation, not just the unimaginably painful and destructive incision and even resection of a child’s clitoris and the sewing together of her labia, leading to permanent nerve damage, lasting wounds, loss of sexual function, complications from incontinence, ruined relationships, injuries from sexual intercourse, and serious medical risks during childbirth, and possibly the need for reconstructive surgery.
This is a problem which cannot be fixed by expressing normal murmurs of concern, building a wave of concern that climbs a ladder of concern, or making monthly token charitable payments. This concern is not susceptible to a campaign. What this problem needs is regulation, legislation, policing. This concern shouldn’t have to compete with all the other concerns out there, like distressed retired donkeys, threatened butterflies, meltdown polar bears, de-forested orangutans and by-catch dolphins. Some things just shouldn’t happen. They just shouldn’t be tolerated. And they shouldn’t be lost amongst an avalanche of other concerns. This problem is so serious that it should be an automatic priority for all the authorities, co-ordinating to detect and prevent it. This concern shouldn’t have to campaign for funds. Or attention.
Switch to BBC News. Roger Harrabin reports that “The UK’s chief scientist says the oceans face a serious and growing risk from man-made carbon emissions. […] Sir Mark Walport warns that the acidity of the oceans has increased by about 25% since the industrial revolution, mainly thanks to manmade emissions. […] He told BBC News: “If we carry on emitting CO2 [carbon dioxide] at the same rate, ocean acidification will create substantial risks to complex marine food webs and ecosystems.” […] The consequences of acidification are likely to be made worse by the warming of the ocean expected with climate change, a process which is also driven by CO2.”
Media Lens Editors reported this piece. My reaction was – who would be paying attention to this ? This is not the “dangerous climate change comes from global warming” story, this is the “other” carbon problem, the decimation of marine productivity and the whole pyramid of life, resulting from increasing levels of dissolved carbon dioxide in seawater because of higher levels of carbon dioxide in the air. The overwhelmingly major causes of this problem are irrefutably and definitely fossil fuel combustion, and its seriousness is hard to deny, even though Roger Harrabin attempts to make light of it by devoting column inches to a laboratory crab who isn’t getting with the programme.
Ocean acidification is a concern that shouldn’t get lost in amongst other concerns. It should be paid serious levels of attention. And not just by middle class philanthropists who work for non-governmental organisations and charities. And yet, cursory analysis of the segmentation of the population who treat BBC News as a main and trusted information source may suggest that the only readers who would act on this piece are exactly these middle class charity staff, or at a push, retired middle class charity staff.
My Media Lens comment was, “Right expert. Right message. Wrong audience. Wrong medium. The UK Government’s chief scientist. OK. Good. Ocean acidification. OK. Good. No quibbles about whether or not extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a real problem or not (as known as “climate change” or “global warming”, which is real by the way). The BBC News. Wrong medium. Wrong audience. The only people going to listen to this are those who already know about the problem but are still as powerless to act as they were yesterday. The UK Government should present this information to the oil, gas and coal companies with a polite request for them to unveil their plan of action in the face of this undeniable problem.”
There is no reason why this story should be covered in BBC News by Roger Harrabin. What can anybody reading it do about the problem ? There is no purpose for this article. It is a pointless statement of concern, or rather, a belittling rehearsal of the concern. Unless this article, and the thousands like it, lead to the Government demanding answers on Energy Change from the fossil fuel companies, there is no point in reporting it, or in this case, disparaging it with faint humour.
The only time that ocean acidification should appear in a media piece is to report that the problem has been presented to the architects of increased ocean carbon dioxide, and answers have been requested.
And who are the architects of increased atmospheric and ocean carbon dioxide ? Those who mine fossil fuels. Those companies like BP and Shell, ExxonMobil, and all the coal extraction companies should act. They should offer us alternative non-fossil fuel energy. And the news should be about how these companies are taking action to offer us Renewable Hydrogen, Renewable Methane, solar power, wind power and Zero Carbon transport fuels.
Answers from the past will simply not do. Trying to assert that somebody needs to pay for pollution won’t prevent pollution occurring. Carbon taxes or carbon pricing won’t work – since they won’t prevent the mining of fossil fuels – and if fossil fuels are mined, of course they will be burned. Carbon combustion quotas won’t work – since economic wealth is based on burning carbon, so many forces will conspire to maintain levels of fossil fuel combustion. Carbon mining quotas won’t work, since the forces for increasing mining quotas are strong. Carbon trading won’t work, since it won’t reduce the amount of fossil fuels mined – because, obviously, if fossil fuels are mined, they will be burned.
I am tired of reading about climate change, global warming, freshwater stress and ocean acidification in the news. It seems there is nothing I can do that I have not already done that can provide a solution to these problems. Enough with communicating the disaster. I want to read about engineering and energy companies who have switched business models to producing Zero Carbon energy. I want to hear how energy security concern is taking oil, gas and coal companies towards Renewable Everything.
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Who Likes Beer ?
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First, Christian Figueres speaks at St Paul’s Cathedral, and then there’s a debate, and questions, and somebody says Capitalism needs to be reformed or we’re not going to get any proper change. Half the people in the room sigh. “The last thing we need now is an obsessive compulsive revolutionary Marxist”, I hear somebody thinking.
Then, no surprise, Prince Charles comes out in favour of compassionate capitalism. That’s kind of like asking people to be nice to puppies, and about as realistic call for change as wanting the Moon to be actually made of cheese. As if focusing all our efforts and energy on repairing an already-breaking machine of trade with its destructive exploitation of resources and labour is going to stop climate change. Really. What actually needs to happen is that we address carbon emissions. If we cannot measure a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, or count new trees, we are getting nowhere, fast. The Holy Economy can go hang if we don’t address Climate Change, and it will, because Climate Change is already sucking the lifeblood out of production and trade.
The non-governmental organisations – the charities, aid and development agencies and the like, do not know how to deal with climate change. They cannot simply utilise their tools of guilt to prise coins from peoples’ clenched hands and put the money towards something helpful. Well, they can, and they do, and you better watch out for more poor, starving African type campaigning, because programmes for adaptation to climate change are important, and I’ve never said they’re not, but they don’t address mitigation – the preventing of climate change. Well, some can, such as the project for smokeless, efficient ovens, but that’s not the point here. The point is that Christian Aid, for example, calling on us all to be “Hungry for Justice” isn’t addressing the central problem – the mass use of fossil fuels and deforestation in the name of economic development.
People are talking in hushed, reverential tones about Make Climate History. The way that Make Poverty History worked was a bunch of parliamentary people, and government people, sat down together and worked out how to get shows of public support for the government’s calls to the G8. The appeal to the masses was principally divided into two kinds – messages calling for people to support the government, and messages calling for people to urge, shout, rail, demonstrate to the government that they wanted these things. So, if you were in the first group you were showing support for what you thought was a good thing, and if you were in the second group, you were using all your righteous anger to force the government to take up the cause of the poor. The NGOs merely repeated these messages out on the wires. People spent a lot of time and energy on taking these messages out to various communities, who then spent a lot of time and energy on public meetings, letter writing, postcard signing, rallying, marching, talking to their democratic representatives. But all of that activity was actually useless. The relationships that counted were the relationships between the governments, not between the governments and their NGOs. The NGOs were used to propagate a government initiative.
And now, they’re doing it again with climate change. Various parts of government, who have actually understood the science, and the economics, can see how it is in the best interests of the United Kingdom, and the European Union, of which we are a closely-connected part, to adopt strong carbon control policies. But they’re not content just to get on with it. No, they want all the politically active types to make a show of support. And so the communications begin. Apparently open consultative meetings are convened, but the agenda is already decided, and the messaging already written for you.
It reminds me of what happened with the Climate Marches. A truly independent strongly critical movement centred around the Campaign against Climate Change organised a demonstration of protest every year in London, leading people either from or to the American Embassy, as the USA was the most recalcitrant on taking action to control greenhouse gas emissions. This was an effective display of public feeling, as it irritated and scratched and annoyed. So it had to go. So, I Count was born, a project of Stop Climate Chaos. They organised events sometimes on the very same day as the Campaign against Climate Change, and their inclusive hippy message was all lovehearts and flowers and we wouldn’t hurt a fly type calls for change. In the run up to the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Kyoto Protocol in late 2009, all the NGOs were pushing for energy to be concentrated on its outcome, but nobody who joined in the vigils, the pilgrimages or the marches had any chance to make a real input. We were just the feather boa on the cake. We were even ejected from the building.
All this energy expended was a complete waste of time. With climate change, the relationships that count are between the governments and the energy industry. The NGOs may rant and rail in their toothless, fangless, clawless way about energy industry infelicity, ignominy, ignorance and inflexibility, but the energy industry only cares about NGOs if they show any sign of rebellious insubordination, which might upset their shareholders.
The governments know what they need to do – they need to improve their relationships with their energy industries to come to an agreement about decarbonising the energy supply – ask them in the most non-nonsense, unavoidable, sisterly/brotherly way to diversify out of fossil fuels. It really doesn’t matter what the NGOs say or do.
Current climate change campaigning to the masses is analagous to walking into a student party and shouting above the noise, sorry, music, “Hands up, who likes beer ?” You might get some token drunken waves out of that, but nothing more.
People, I predict, are less likely to join in with a hunger strike than they are to like beer. And even if I did join the Climate Fast, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference to energy company behaviour or government policy.
Look, I’ve done my share of climate change actions. I’ve cut my personal energy use, I’ve given up ironing and vacuuming, for example. I’ve installed solar panels. I use the bus. I’ve taken part in the Great Scheme of Voluntary Behaviour Change – I, the energy consumer have shown my willingness to consume less and produce less greenhouse gas emissions. Now it’s time for other people to act.
Given half a chance, most of the British people would vote for climate – a decent, hardworking, sunshine-and-rain and rather moderate climate – and none of this extremist storms, floods and droughts scenario we’ve been suffering recently.
Yes, and more British people want renewable energy than voted in their Local Elections.
So why doesn’t the UK Government just get on with it – institute the proper Carbon Budget at home, continue to ask for decent decarbonisation targets abroad, and leave all the compassionate caring people to devote themselves to causes that they stand a chance of impacting ?
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On Not Setting The Proper Tone
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So, I turned up for a national Climate Change campaigning and lobbying day some years ago. I had offered to steward at the event. My attire concerned one of those close to the organising team. After all, there were Members of Parliament due to attend, and Gentlemen and Ladies of the Press. “I don’t think it’s quite setting the right tone.” she commented.
Well, I want to know what the right tone is, exactly. And I don’t think anybody else does, either. How do we make change happen ? Really ?
I’ve just received another email missive from The Climate Coalition asking me to Tweet tomorrow about the Carbon Budget.
“As you may remember, back in 2011 we successfully fought for the government to deliver on its climate targets by adopting the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) recommendations on the 4th Carbon Budget…”
I mean, that’s a bit of a claim to start with. I very much doubt that anything that the Climate Coalition (or Stop Climate Chaos, as they were known in 2011) did had any bearing on the UK Government’s policy- or decision-making.
“…That decision is currently up for review and we need to make sure the government sticks to the ambition it showed 3 years ago, starting with a Twitter love in this Thursday.”
I beg your pardon ? How can The Climate Coalition make sure the UK Government does anything ? By Tweeting ? OK, so The Climate Coalition is an umbrella organisation of over 40 organisations, ostensibly representing over 11 million people, but it doesn’t have any real political weight, or any serious influence with The Treasury, who are normally the ones resisting the development of the green economy.
“…We’ve heard rumours that this is currently being negotiated in government, with at least some arguing for weaker targets. We don’t know yet which way it’ll go, so David Cameron and Nick Clegg might just need a bit of support from us to make the right decision and stick to our current targets…”
So this is what it’s all about – a show of support for the UK Government !
So, tell me, why should I join in, exactly ? I won’t be having any kind of genuine impact. It’s just a token flag-waving exercise.
I know I’m not setting the right tone, here. I’m challenging the proposals for action from one of the country’s largest collective groups with a clear position about climate change. But that’s because it’s a washout – there is nothing to be gained by responding to this appeal to Tweet.
I mean, if they called for the whole 11 million people to do something actually meaningful, like withdraw their labour for one hour a day, or refuse to use household appliances for 8 hours a week, or all demand a meeting with the fossil fuel producing companies asking them what their plan is to decarbonise the energy supply, then I suppose that might be something worth trying.
But Tweeting ? In support of a Government decision that they ought to make anyway based on the existing Climate Change Law and the science ? Why would they need me to join in with them on that ?
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This Too Will Fail
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I will probably fail to make myself understood, yet again, but here goes…
The reasons the United Nations Climate Change process is failing are :-
1. The wrong people are being asked to shoulder responsibility
It is a well-rumoured possibility that the fossil fuel industry makes sure it has sympathisers and lobbyists at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conferences. It is only natural that they should want to monitor proceedings, and influence outcomes. But interventions by the energy sector has a much wider scope. Delegates from the countries with national oil and gas companies are key actors at UNFCCC conferences. Their national interests are closely bound to their fossil fuel exports. Many other countries understand their national interest is bound to the success of energy sector companies operating within their borders. Still others have governments with energy policy virtually dictated by international energy corporations. Yet when the UNFCCC discusses climate change, the only obligations discussed are those of nations – the parties to any treaty are the governments and regimes of the world. The UNFCCC does not hold oil and gas (and coal) companies to account. BP and Shell (and Exxon and Chevron and Total and GDF Suez and Eni and so on) are not asked to make undertakings at the annual climate talks. Governments are hoped to forge a treaty, but this treaty will create no leverage for change; no framework of accountability amongst those who produce oil, gas and coal.
2. The right people are not in the room
It’s all very well for Governments to commit to a treaty, but they cannot implement it. Yes, their citizens can make a certain amount of changes, and reduce their carbon emissions through controlling their energy consumption and their material acquisitions. But that’s not the whole story. Energy has to be decarbonised at source. There are technological solutions to climate change, and they require the deployment of renewable energy systems. The people who can implement renewable energy schemes should be part of the UNFCCC process; the engineering companies who make wind turbines, solar photovoltaic panels, the people who can build Renewable Gas systems. Companies such as Siemens, GE, Alstom. Energy engineering project companies. Chemical engineering companies.
3. The economists are still in the building
In the United Kingdom (what will we call it if Scotland becomes independent ? And what will the word “British” then mean ?) the Parliament passed the Climate Change Act. But this legislation is meaningless without a means to implement the Carbon Budgets it institutes. The British example is just a minor parallel to the UNFCCC situation – how can a global climate treaty be made to work ? Most of the notions the economists have put forward so far to incentivise energy demand reduction and stimulate low carbon energy production have failed to achieve much. Carbon trading ! Carbon pricing ! All rather ineffective. Plus, there’s the residual notion of different treatment for developed and developing nations, which is a road to nowhere.
4. Unilateral action is frowned upon
Apparently, since Climate Change is a global problem, we all have to act in a united fashion to solve it. But that’s too hard to ask, at least to start with. When countries or regions take it upon themselves to act independently, the policy community seem to counsel against it. There are a few exceptions, such as the C40 process, where individual cities are praised for independent action, but as soon as the European Community sets up something that looks like a border tax on carbon, that’s a no-no. Everybody is asked to be part of a global process, but it’s almost too hard to get anything done within this framework.
5. Civil Society is hamstrung and tongue-tied
There is very little that people groups can achieve within the UNFCCC process, because there is a disconnect between the negotiations and practical action. The framework of the treaty discussions does not encompass the real change makers. The UNFCCC does not build the foundation for the architecture of a new green economy, because it only addresses itself to garnering commitments from parties that cannot fulfill them. Civil Society ask for an egg sandwich and they are given a sandy eggshell. If Civil Society groups call for technology, they are given a carbon credit framework. If they call for differential investment strategies that can discredit carbon dependency, they are given an opportunity to put money into the global adaptation fund.
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Positively Against Negative Campaigning
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How to organise a political campaign around Climate Change : ask a group of well-fed, well-meaning, Guardian-reading, philanthropic do-gooders into the room to adopt the lowest common denominator action plan. Now, as a well-fed, well-meaning, Guardian-reading (well, sometimes), philanthropic do-gooder myself, I can expect to be invited to attend such meetings on a regular basis. And always, I find myself frustrated by the outcomes : the same insipid (but with well-designed artwork) calls to our publics and networks to support something with an email registration, a signed postcard, a fistful of dollars, a visit to a public meeting of no consequence, or a letter to our democratic representative. No output except maybe some numbers. Numbers to support a government decision, perhaps, or numbers to indicate what kind of messaging people need in future.
I mean, with the Fair Trade campaign, at least there was some kind of real outcome. Trade Justice advocates manned stall tables at churches, local venues, public events, and got money flowing to the international co-operatives, building up the trade, making the projects happen, providing schooling and health and aspirations in the target countries. But compare that to the Make Poverty History campaign which was largely run to support a vain top-level political attempt to garner international funding promises for social, health and economic development. Too big to succeed. No direct line between supporting the campaign and actually supporting the targets. Passing round the hat to developed, industrialised countries for a fund to support change in developing, over-exploited countries just isn’t going to work. Lord Nicholas Stern tried to ask for $100 billion a year by 2020 for Climate Change adaptation. This has skidded to a halt, as far as I know. The economic upheavals, don’t you know ?
And here we are again. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which launched the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports on climate change, oh, so, long, ago, through the person of its most charismatic and approachable Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres, is calling for support for a global Climate Change treaty in 2015. Elements of this treaty, being drafted this year, will, no doubt, use the policy memes of the past – passing round the titfer begging for a couple of billion squid for poor, hungry people suffering from floods and droughts; proposing some kind of carbon pricing/taxing/trading scheme to conjure accounting bean solutions; trying to implement an agreement around parts per million by volume of atmospheric carbon dioxide; trying to divide the carbon cake between the rich and the poor.
Somehow, we believe, that being united around this proposed treaty, few of which have any control over the contents of, will bring us progress.
What can any of us do to really have input into the building of a viable future ? Christiana – for she is now known frequently only by her first name – has called for numbers – a measure of support for the United Nations process. She has also let it be known that if there is a substantial number of people who, with their organisations, take their investments out of fossil fuels, then this could contribute to the mood of the moment. Those who are advocating divestment are yet small in number, and I fear that they will continue to be marginal, partly because of the language that is being used.
First of all, there are the Carbon Disclosers. Their approach is to conjure a spectre of the “Carbon Bubble” – making a case that investments in carbon dioxide-rich enterprises could well end up being stranded by their assets, either because of wrong assumptions about viable remaining resources of fossil fuels, or because of wrong assumptions about the inability of governments to institute carbon pricing. Well, obviously, governments will find it hard to implement effective carbon pricing, because governments are in bed with the energy industry. Politically, governments need to keep big industry sweet. No surprise there. And it’s in everybody’s interests if Emperor Oil and Prince Regent Natural Gas are still wearing clothes. In the minds of the energy industry, we still have a good four decades of healthy fossil fuel assets. Royal Dutch Shell’s CEO can therefore confidently say at a public AGM that There Is No Carbon Bubble. The Carbon Discloser language is not working, it seems, as any kind of convincer, except to a small core of the concerned.
And then there are the Carbon Voices. These are the people reached by email campaigns who have no real idea how to do anything practical to affect change on carbon dioxide emissions, but they have been touched by the message of the risks of climate change and they want to be seen to be supporting action, although it’s not clear what action will, or indeed can, be taken. Well-designed brochures printed on stiff recycled paper with non-toxic inks will pour through their doors and Inboxes. Tick it. Send it back. Sign it. Send it on. Maybe even send some cash to support the campaign. This language is not achieving anything except guilt.
And then there are the Carbon Divestors. These are extremely small marginal voices who are taking a firm stand on where their organisations invest their capital. The language is utterly dated. The fossil fuel industry are evil, apparently, and investing in fossil fuels is immoral. It is negative campaigning, and I don’t think it stands a chance of making real change. It will not achieve its goal of being prophetic in nature – bearing witness to the future – because of the non-inclusive language. Carbon Voices reached by Carbon Divestor messages will in the main refuse to respond, I feel.
Political action on Climate Change, and by that I mean real action based on solid decisions, often taken by individuals or small groups, has so far been under-the-radar, under-the-counter, much like the Fair Trade campaign was until it burst forth into the glorious day of social acceptability and supermarket supply chains. You have the cyclists, the Transition Towners, the solar power enthusiasts. Yet to get real, significant, economic-scale transition, you need Energy Change – that is, a total transformation of the energy supply and use systems. It’s all very well for a small group of Methodist churches to pull their pension funds from investments in BP and Shell, but it’s another thing entirely to engage BP and Shell in an action plan to diversify out of petroleum oil and Natural Gas.
Here below are my email words in my feeble attempt to challenge the brain of Britain’s charitable campaigns on what exactly is intended for the rallying cry leading up to Paris 2015. I can pretty much guarantee you won’t like it – but you have to remember – I’m not breaking ranks, I’m trying to get beyond the Climate Change campaigning and lobbying that is currently in play, which I regard as ineffective. I don’t expect a miraculous breakthrough in communication, the least I can do is sow the seed of an alternative. I expect I could be dis-invited from the NGO party, but it doesn’t appear to be a really open forum, merely a token consultation to build up energy for a plan already decided. If so, there are probably more important things I could be doing with my time than wasting hours and hours and so much effort on somebody else’s insipid and vapid agenda.
I expect people might find that attitude upsetting. If so, you know, I still love you all, but you need to do better.
A lot of campaigning over the last 30 years has been very negative and divisive, and frequently ends in psychological stalemate. Those who are cast as the Bad Guys cannot respond to the campaigning because they cannot admit to their supporters/employees/shareholders that the campaigners are “right”. Joe Average cannot support a negative campaign as there is no apparent way to make change happen by being so oppositional, and because the ask is too difficult, impractical, insupportable. [Or there is simply too much confusion or cognitive dissonance.]
One of the things that was brought back from the […] working group breakout on […] to the plenary feedback session was that there should be some positive things about this campaign on future-appropriate investment. I think […] mentioned the obvious one of saying effectively “we are backing out of these investments in order to invest in things that are more in line with our values” – with the implicit encouragement for fossil fuel companies to demonstrate that they can be in line with our values and that they are moving towards that. There was some discussion that there are no bulk Good Guy investment funds, that people couldn’t move investments in bulk, although some said there are. […] mentioned Ethex.
Clearly fossil fuel production companies are going to find it hard to switch from oil and gas to renewable electricity, so that’s not a doable we can ask them for. Several large fossil fuel companies, such as BP, have tried doing wind and solar power, but they have either shuttered those business units, or not let them replace their fossil fuel activities.
[…] asked if the [divestment] campaign included a call for CCS – Carbon Capture and Storage – and […] referred to […] which showed where CCS is listed in a box on indicators of a “good” fossil fuel energy company.
I questioned whether the fossil fuel companies really want to do CCS – and that they have simply been waiting for government subsidies or demonstration funds to do it. (And anyway, you can’t do CCS on a car.)
I think I said in the meeting that fossil fuel producer companies can save themselves and save the planet by adopting Renewable Gas – so methods for Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) or “carbon recycling”. Plus, they could be making low carbon gas by using biomass inputs. Most of the kit they need is already widely installed at petrorefineries. So – they get to keep producing gas and oil, but it’s renewably and sustainably sourced with low net carbon dioxide emissions. That could be turned into a positive, collaborative ask, I reckon, because we could all invest in that, the fossil fuel companies and their shareholders.
Anyway, I hope you did record something urging a call to positive action and positive engagement, because we need the co-operation of the fossil fuel companies to make appropriate levels of change to the energy system. Either that, or they go out of business and we face social turmoil.
If you don’t understand why this is relevant, that’s OK. If you don’t understand why a straight negative campaign is a turn-off to many people (including those in the fossil fuel industry), well, I could role play that with you. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about when I talk about Renewable Gas, come and talk to me about it again in 5 years, when it should be common knowledge. If you don’t understand why I am encouraging positive collaboration, when negative campaigning is so popular and marketable to your core segments, then I will resort to the definition of insanity – which is to keep doing the same things, expecting a different result.
I’m sick and tired of negative campaigning. Isn’t there a more productive thing to be doing ?
There are no enemies. There are no enemies. There are no enemies.
As far as I understand the situation, both the […] and […] campaigns are negative. They don’t appear to offer any positive routes out of the problem that could engage the fossil fuel companies in taking up the baton of Energy Change. If that is indeed the main focus of […] and […] efforts, then I fear they will fail. Their work will simply be a repeat of the negative campaigning of the last 30 years – a small niche group will take up now-digital placards and deploy righteous, holy social media anger, and that will be all.
Since you understand this problem, then I would suggest you could spend more time and trouble helping them to see a new way. You are, after all, a communications expert. And so you know that even Adolf Hitler used positive, convening, gathering techniques of propaganda to create power – and reserved the negative campaigning for easily-marginalised vulnerable groups to pile the bile and blame on.
Have a nicer day,
The important thing as far as I understand it is that the “campaigning” organisations need to offer well-researched alternatives, instead of just complaining about the way things are. And these well-researched alternatives should not just be the token sops flung at the NGOs and UN by the fossil fuel companies. What do I mean ?
Well, let’s take Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The injection of carbon dioxide into old oil and gas caverns was originally proposed for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) – that is – getting more oil and gas out the ground by pumping gas down there – a bit like fracking, but with gas instead of liquid. The idea was that the expense of CCS would be compensated for by the new production of oil and gas – however, the CCS EOR effect has shown to be only temporary. So now the major oil and gas companies say they support carbon pricing (either by taxation or trading), to make CCS move forward. States and federations have given them money to do it. I think the evidence shows that carbon pricing cannot be implemented at a sufficiently high level to incentivise CCS, therefore CCS is a non-answer. Why has […] not investigated this ? CCS is a meme, but not necessarily part of the carbon dioxide solution. Not even the UNFCCC IPCC reports reckon that much CCS can be done before 2040. So, why does CCS appear in the […] criteria for a “good” fossil fuel company ? Because it’s sufficiently weak as a proposal, and sufficiently far enough ahead that the fossil fuel companies can claim they are “capture ready”, and in the Good Book, but in reality are doing nothing.
Non-starters don’t just appear from fossil fuel companies. From my point of view, another example of running at and latching on to things that cannot help was the support of the GDR – Greenhouse Development Rights, of which there has been severe critique in policy circles, but the NGOs just wrote it into their policy proposals without thinking about it. There is no way that the emissions budgets set out in the GDR policy could ever get put into practice. For a start, there is no real economic reason to divide the world into developing and developed nations (Kyoto [Protocol]’s Annex I and Annex II).
If you give me some links, I’m going to look over your […] and think about it.
I think that if a campaign really wants to get anywhere with fossil fuel companies, instead of being shunted into a siding, it needs to know properly what the zero carbon transition pathways really are. Unequal partners do not make for a productive engagement, I reckon.
I’m sorry to say that this still appears to be negative campaigning – fossil fuel companies are “bad”; and we need to pull our money out of fossil fuel companies and put it in other “good” companies. Where’s the collective, co-operative effort undertaken with the fossil fuel companies ? What’s your proposal for helping to support them in evolving ? Do you know how they can technologically transition from using fossil fuels to non-fossil fuels ? And how are you communicating that with them ?
They call me the “Paradigm Buster”. I’m not sure if “the group” is open to even just peeking into that kind of approach, let alone “exploring” it. The action points on the corporate agenda could so easily slip back into the methods and styles of the past. Identify a suffering group. Build a theory of justice. Demand reparation. Make Poverty History clearly had its victims and its saviours. Climate change, in my view, requires a far different treatment. Polar bears cannot substitute for starving African children. And not even when climate change makes African children starve, can they inspire the kind of action that climate change demands. A boycott campaign without a genuine alternative will only touch a small demographic. Whatever “the group” agrees to do, I want it to succeed, but by rehashing the campaigning strategies and psychology of the past, I fear it will fail. Even by adopting the most recent thinking on change, such as Common Cause, [it] is not going to surmount the difficulties of trying to base calls to action on the basis of us-and-them thinking – polar thinking – the good guys versus the bad guys – the body politic David versus the fossil fuel company Goliath. By challenging this, I risk alienation, but I am bound to adhere to what I see as the truth. Climate change is not like any other disaster, aid or emergency campaign. You can’t just put your money in the [collecting tin] and pray the problem will go away with the help of the right agencies. Complaining about the “Carbon Bubble” and pulling your savings from fossil fuels is not going to re-orient the oil and gas companies. The routes to effective change require a much more comprehensive structure of actions. And far more engagement that agreeing to be a flag waver for whichever Government policy is on the table. I suppose it’s too much to ask to see some representation from the energy industry in “the group”, or at least […] leaders who still believe in the fossil fuel narratives, to take into account their agenda and their perspective, and a readiness to try positive collaborative change with all the relevant stakeholders ?
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Christiana Figueres : Love Bug
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It was probably a side-effect of the flu’, but as I was listening to Christiana Figueres speaking at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, this evening, I started to have tunnel vision, and the rest of the “hallowed halls” just melted away, and I felt she was speaking to me individually, woman to woman.
She talked a lot about investments, injustices and inertia, but I felt like she was personally calling me, nagging me, bugging me to show more love. She said she didn’t want us to leave thinking “That was interesting”, or even “That was inspiring”, but that we would leave resolved to do one more concrete thing to show our love for our world, and our fellow human beings.
I was a little defensive inside – I’m already trying to get some big stuff done – how could I do anything else that could be effective ? She said that we couldn’t ask people to do more if we weren’t prepared to do more ourselves. I wasn’t sure that any of the things she suggested I could try would have any impact, but I suppose I could try again to write to my MP Iain Duncan Smith – after all, Private Eye tells me he’s just hired a communications consultant, so he might be willing to communicate with me about climate change, perhaps.
Of her other suggestions, I have already selected investments that are low carbon, so there would be little point in writing to them about carbon-based “stranded assets”. My diet is very largely vegetarian; I buy food and provisions from co-operatives where I can; I don’t own a car; I’ve given up flying; I’ve installed solar electricity; my energy consumption is much lower than average; I buy secondhand; I reuse, repair, reclaim, recycle.
I don’t want to “campaign” on climate change – I don’t think that would be very loving. This should not be a public relations mission, it needs to be authentic and inclusive, so I don’t know what the best way is to engage more people in “the struggle”. I’ve sent enough email in my life. People already know about climate change, I don’t need to evangelise them. They already know some of the things they could do to mitigate their fossil fuel energy consumption, I don’t need to educate them. The organisations that are still pushing fossil fuels to society have more to do to get with the transition than everyday energy consumers, surely ?
So, how is it that this “love bug” bites me ? What do I feel bugged to be getting on with ? Researching low carbon gas energy systems is my main action at the moment, but what could I do that would be an answer to Christiana’s call for me to do something extra ? Join in the monthly fast and prayer that’s due to start on 1st November ? Well, sure I will, as part of my work duties. Network for Our Voices that will funnel the energy of the monthly call to prayer into a Civil Society “tornado” in support of the UNFCCC Paris Treaty ? Yes, of course. Comes with the territory. But more… ?
I noticed that Christiana Figueres had collegiate competition from the bells of St Paul’s, and it sounded like the whole cathedral was ringing. Then my cough started getting bad and I started to feel quite unwell, so I had to leave before the main debate took place, to medicate myself with some fresh orange juice from a company I chose because it tracks its carbon, and has a proper plan for climate sustainability, so I never answered my question – what do I need to do, to do more about climate change ?
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Peak Oil : Kitchen Burlesque
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An engineering buddy and I find ourselves in my kitchen, reading out loud from Jeremy Leggett’s 2013 book “The Energy of Nations : Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance”. The main topic of the work, I feel, is the failure of the energy sector and the political elites to develop a realistic plan for the future, and their blinkered adherence to clever arguments taken from failing and cracked narratives – such as the belief that unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands, can make up for declining conventional oil and gas production. It’s also about compromise of the highest order in the most influential ranks. The vignettes recalling conversations with the high and mighty are pure comedy.
“It’s very dramatic…”
“You can imagine it being taken to the West End theatres…”
“We should ask Ben Elton to take a look – adapt it for the stage…”
“It should really have costumes. Period costumes…Racy costumes…”
“Vaudeville ?”
“No…burlesque ! Imagine the ex-CEO of BP, John Browne, in a frou-frou tutu, slipping a lacy silk strap from his shoulder…What a Lord !”
“Do you think Jeremy Leggett would look good in a bodice ?”
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Curmudgeons Happen
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I was talking with people at my friend’s big birthday bash yesterday. I mentioned I’m writing about Renewable Gas, and this led to a variety of conversations. Here is a kind of summary of one of the threads, involving several people.
Why do people continue to insist that the wind turbine at Reading uses more energy than it generates ?
Would it still be there if it wasn’t producing power ? Does David Cameron still have a wind turbine on his roof ? No. It wasn’t working, so it was taken down. I would ask – what are their sources of information ? What newspapers and websites do they read ?
They say that the wind turbine at Reading is just there for show.
Ah. The “Potemkin Village” meme – an idyllic-looking setting, but everything’s faked. The Chinese painting the desert green, etc.
And then there are people that say that the only reason wind farms continue to make money is because they run the turbines inefficiently to get the subsidies.
Ah. The “De-rating Machine” meme. You want to compare and contrast. Look at the amount of money, resources, time and tax breaks being poured into the UK Continental Shelf, and Shale Gas, by the current Government.
Every new technology needs a kick start, a leg up. You need to read some of the reports on wind power as an asset – for example, the Offshore Valuation – showing a Net Present Value. After it’s all deployed, even with the costs of re-powering at the end of turbine life, offshore North Sea wind power will be a genuine asset.
What I don’t understand is, why do people continue to complain that wind turbines spoil the view ? Look at the arguments about the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.
I have contacts there who forward me emails about the disputes. The yachtsmen of Poole are in open rebellion because the wind turbines will be set in in their channels ! The tourists will still come though, and that’s what really counts. People in Dorset just appear to love arguing, and you’ve got some people doing good impressions of curmudgeons at the head of the branches of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) and English Heritage.
There are so many people who resist renewable energy, and refuse to accept we need to act on climate change. Why do they need to be so contrarian ? I meet them all the time.
People don’t like change, but change happens. The majority of people accept that climate change is significant enough to act on, and the majority of people want renewable energy. It may not seem like that though. It depends on who you talk with. There’s a small number of people who vocalise scepticism and who have a disproportionate effect. I expect you are talking about people who are aged 55 and above ?
Example : “Climate Change ? Haw haw haw !” and “Wind turbines ? They don’t work !” This is a cohort problem. All the nasty white racists are dying and being buried with respect by black undertakers. All the rabid xenophobes are in nursing homes being cared for in dignity by “foreigners”. Pretty soon Nigel Lawson could suffer from vascular dementia and be unable to appear on television.
The media have been insisting that they need a balance of views, but ignoring the fact that the climate change “sceptics” are very small in number and not backed up by the science.
Why does Nigel Lawson, with all his access and privilege, continue to insist that global warming is not a problem ?
Fortunately, even though he’s “establishment” and has more influence than he really should have, the people that are really in charge know better. He should talk to the climate change scientists – the Met Office continue to invite sceptics to come and talk with them. He should talk to people in the energy sector – engineers and project managers. He should talk to people in the cross-party Parliamentary groups who have access to the information from the expert Select Committees.
And what about Owen Paterson ? I cannot understand why they put a climate change sceptic in charge of the Department of the Environment.
Well, we’ve always done that, haven’t we ? Put Ministers in Departments they know nothing about, so that they can learn their briefs. We keep putting smokers in charge of health policy. Why do you think he was put in there ?
To pacify the Conservative Party.
But I know Conservative Party activists who are very much in favour of renewable energy and understand the problems of climate change. It’s not the whole Party.
We need to convince so many people.
We only need to convince the people who matter. And anyway, we don’t need to do any convincing. Leaders in the energy industry, in engineering, in science, in Government (the real government is the Civil Service), the Parliament, they already understand the risks of climate change and the need for a major energy transition.
People should continue to express their views, but people only vote on economic values. That’s why Ed Miliband has pushed the issue of the cost of energy – to try to bring energy to the forefront of political debate.
What about nuclear fusion ?
Nuclear fusion has been 35 years away for the last 35 years. It would be nice to have, because it could really solve the problem. Plus, it keeps smart people busy.
What about conventional nuclear fission power ?
I say, “Let them try !” The Hinkley Point C deal has so many holes in it, it’s nearly collapsed several times. I’m sure they will continue to try to build it, but I’m not confident they will finish it. Nuclear power as an industry is basically washed up in my view, despite the lengths that it goes to to influence society and lobby the Government.
It’s going to be too late to answer serious and urgent problems – there is an energy crunch approaching fast, and the only things that can answer it are quick-to-build options such as new gas-fired power plants, wind farms, solar farms, demand reduction systems such as shutting down industry and smart fridges.
How can the energy companies turn your fridge off ?
If the appliances have the right software, simple frequency modulation of the power supply should be sufficient to trip fridges and freezers off. Or you could connect them to the Internet via a gateway. The problem is peak power demand periods, twice a day, the evening peak worse than the morning. There has been some progress in managing this due to switching light bulbs and efficient appliances, but it’s still critical. Alistair Buchanan, ex of Ofgem, went out on a limb to say that we could lose all our power production margins within a couple of years, in winter.
But the refrigerators are being opened and closed in the early evening, so it would be the wrong time of day to switch them off. And anyway, don’t the fridges stop using power when they’re down to temperature ?
Some of these things will need to be imposed regardless of concerns, because control of peak power demand is critical. Smart fridges may be some years away, but the National Grid already have contracts with major energy users to shed their load under certain circumstances. Certain key elements of the energy infrastructure will be pushed through. They will need to be pushed through, because the energy crunch is imminent.
The time for democracy was ten years ago. To get better democracy you need much more education. Fortunately, young people (which includes young journalists) are getting that education. If you don’t want to be irritated by the views of climate change and energy sceptics, don’t bother to read the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the online Register or the Spectator. The old school journalists love to keep scandal alive, even though any reason to doubt climate change science and renewable energy died in the 1980s.
Although I’ve long since stopped trusting what a journalist writes, I’m one of those people who think that you should read those sources.
I must admit I do myself from time to time, but just for entertainment.
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Making The Sour Sweet
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In the long view, some things are inevitable, and I don’t just mean death and taxes. Within the lifetime of children born today, there must be a complete transformation in energy. The future is renewable, and carefully deployed renewable energy systems can be reliable, sustainable and low cost, besides being low in carbon dioxide emissions to air. This climate safety response is also the answer to a degradation and decline in high quality mineral hydrocarbons – the so-called “fossil” fuels. Over the course of 2014 I shall be writing about Renewable Gas – sustainable, low emissions gas fuels made on the surface of the earth without recourse to mining for energy. Renewable Gas can store the energy from currently underused Renewable Electricity from major producers such as wind and solar farms, and help to balance out power we capture from the variable wind and sun. Key chemical players in these fuels : hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Key chemistry : how to use hydrogen to recycle the carbon oxides to methane. How we get from here to there is incredibly important, and interestingly, methods and techniques for increasing the production volumes of Renewable Gas will be useful for the gradually fading fossil fuel industry. Much of the world’s remaining easily accessible Natural Gas is “sour” – laced with high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide. Hydrogen sulfide needs to be removed from the gas, but carbon dioxide can be recycled into methane, raising the quality of the gas. We can preserve the Arctic from fossil gas exploitation, and save ourselves from this economic burden and ecological risk, by employing relatively cheap ways to upgrade sour Natural Gas, from Iran, for example, while we are on the decades-long road of transitioning to Renewable Gas. The new burn is coming.
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High Stakes Energy Chutzpah
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After Gordon Brown MP, the UK’s former Prime Minister, was involved in several diplomatic missions around the time of the oil price spike crisis in 2008, and the G20 group of countries went after fossil fuel subsidies (causing easily predictable civil disturbances in several parts of the world), it seemed to me to be obvious that energy price control would be a defining aspect of near-term global policy.
With the economy still in a contracted state (with perhaps further contraction to follow on), national interest for industrialised countries rests in maintaining domestic production and money flows – meaning that citizens should not face sharply-rising utility bills, so that they can remain active in the economy.
In the UK, those at the fringe of financial sustainability are notoriously having to face the decision about whether to Eat or Heat, and Food Banks are in the ascendance. Various charity campaigns have emphasised the importance of affordable energy at home, and the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband MP has made an energy price freeze a potential plank of his policy ahead of the push for the next General Election.
The current Prime Minister, David Cameron MP has called this commitment a “con”, as his political counterpart cannot determine the wholesale price of gas (or power) in the future.
This debate comes at a crucial time in the passage of the UK Energy Bill, as the Electricity Market Reform (EMR), a key component of this legislation has weighty subsidies embedded in it for new nuclear power and renewable energy, and also backup plants (mostly Natural Gas-fired) for periods of high power demand, in what is called the “Capacity Market“. These subsidies will largely be paid for by increases in electricity bills, in one way or another.
The EMR hasn’t yet passed into the statute books, so the majority of “green energy taxes” haven’t yet coming into being – although letters of “comfort” may have been sent to to (one or more) companies seeking to invest in new nuclear power facilities, making clear the UK Government’s monetary commitment to fully supporting the atomic “renaissance”.
With a bucketload of chutzpah, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) and Electricite de France’s Vincent de Rivaz blamed green energy policies for contributing to past, current and future power price rises. Both of these companies stand to gain quite a lot from the EMR, so their blame-passing sounds rather hollow.
The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph have seemed to me to be incendiary regarding green energy subsidies, omitting to mention that whilst the trajectory of the cost of state support for renewable energy is easily calculated, volatility in global energy markets for gas and oil – and even coal – are indeterminable. Although “scandal-hugging” (sensation equals sales) columnists and editors at the newspapers don’t seem to have an appreciation of what’s really behind energy price rises, the Prime Minister – and Ed Davey MP – have got it – and squarely placed the responsibility for energy price rises on fossil fuels.
The price tag for “green energy policies” – even those being offered to (low carbon, but not “green”) nuclear power – should be considerably less than the total bill burden for energy, and hold out the promise of energy price stabilisation or even suppression in the medium- to long-term, which is why most political parties back them.
The agenda for new nuclear power appears to be floundering – it has been suggested by some that European and American nuclear power companies are not solvent enough to finance a new “fleet” of reactors. In the UK, the Government and its friends in the nuclear industry are planning to pull in east Asian investment (in exchange for large amounts of green energy subsidies, in effect). I suspect a legal challenge will be put forward should a trade agreement of this nature be signed, as soon as its contents are public knowledge.
The anger stirred up about green energy subsidies has had a reaction from David Cameron who has not dispensed with green energy policy, but declared that subsidies should not last longer than they are needed – probably pointing at the Germany experience of degressing the solar power Feed-in Tariff – although he hasn’t mentioned how nuclear subsidies could be ratcheted down, since the new nuclear programme will probably have to rely on state support for the whole of its lifecycle.
Meanwhile, in the Press, it seems that green energy doesn’t work, that green energy subsidies are the only reason for energy bill rises, we should drop the Climate Change Act, and John Prescott MP, and strangely, a woman called Susan Thomas, are pushing coal-fired power claiming it as the cheaper, surer – even cleaner – solution, and there is much scaremongering about blackouts.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-prescott-its-coal-power-2366172
John Prescott on why it’s coal power to the people
We can’t just stand back and give these energy companies money to burn.
It’s only 72 days until Christmas. But the greedy big six energy companies are giving themselves an early present. SSE has just announced an inflation-beating 8.2 per cent price rise on gas and electricity.
The other five will soon follow suit, no doubt doing their best to beat their combined profit from last year of £10billion.
Their excuse now is to blame climate change. SSE says it could cut bills by £110 if Government, not the Big Six, paid for green energy subsidies and other environmental costs, such as free loft insulation.
So your bill would look smaller but you’d pay for it with higher taxes. Talk about smoke and mirrors.
But Tory-led governments have always been hopeless at protecting the energy security of this country.
It’s almost 40 years since Britain was hit by blackouts when the Tories forced the UK into a three-day week to conserve energy supplies.
But Ofgem says the margin of security between energy demand and supply will drop from 14 per cent to 4 per cent by 2016. That’s because we’ve committed to closing nine oil and coal power stations to meet EU environmental law and emissions targets. These targets were meant to encourage the UK to move to cleaner sources of energy.
But this government drastically reduced subsidies for renewable energy such as wind and solar, let Tory energy ministers say “enough is enough” to onshore wind and failed to get agreement on replacing old
nuclear power stations.
On top of that, if we experience a particularly cold winter, we only have a reserve of 5 per cent.
But the Government is committed to hundreds of millions pounds of subsidies to pay the energy companies to mothball these oil and coal power stations. As someone who negotiated the first Kyoto agreement in 1997 and is involved in its replacement by 2015, it is clear European emissions targets will not be met in the short term by 2020.
So we have to be realistic and do what we can to keep the lights on, our people warm and our country running.
We should keep these oil and coal power stations open to reduce the risk of blackouts – not on stand-by or mothballed but working now.
The former Tory Energy minister John Hayes hinted at this but knew he couldn’t get it past his Lib Dem Energy Secretary boss Ed Davey. He bragged he’d put the coal in coalition. Instead he put the fire in fired.
We can’t just stand back and give these energy companies money to burn. The only energy security they’re interested in is securing profit and maximising taxpayer subsidies.
That’s why Ed Miliband’s right to say he’d freeze bills for 20 months and to call for more transparency.
We also need an integrated mixed energy policy – gas, oil, wind, nuclear and, yes, coal.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/yoursay/letters/10722697.Bills_have_risen_to_pay_for_policy_changes/?ref=arc
Bills have risen to pay for policy changes
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THE recent Labour Party pledge to freeze energy bills demonstrated how to have a political cake and eat it. The pledge is an attempt to rectify a heinous political mistake caused by political hubris and vanity.
In 2008, the then energy minister, Ed Miliband, vowed to enact the most stringent cuts in power emissions in the entire world to achieve an unrealistic 80 per cent cut in carbon emissions by closing down fully functioning coal power stations.
He was playing the role of climate saint to win popularity and votes.
I was a member when Ed Miliband spoke in Oxford Town Hall to loud cheers from numerous low-carbon businesses, who stood to profit from his legislation. I was concerned at the impact on the consumer, since it is widely known that coal power stations offer the cheapest energy to consumers compared to nuclear and wind.
So I wrote to Andrew Smith MP at great length and he passed on my concerns to the newly-formed Department of Energy and Climate Change that had replaced the previous Department of Energy and Business.
This new department sent me a lengthy reply, mapping out their plans for wind turbines at a projected cost to the consumer of £100bn to include new infrastructure and amendments to the National Grid. This cost would be added to consumer electricity bills via a hidden green policy tariff.
This has already happened and explains the rise in utility bills.
Some consumers are confused and wrongly believe that energy companies are ‘ripping them off’.
It was clearly stated on Channel 4 recently that energy bills have risen to pay for new policy changes. These policy changes were enacted by Ed Miliband in his popularity bid to play climate saviour in 2008. Energy bills have now rocketed. So Ed has cost every single consumer in the land several hundred pounds extra on their bills each year.
SUSAN THOMAS, Magdalen Road, Oxford
[ Turned off: Didcot power station’s closure could lead to power cuts. ]
Labour’s power failures will cost us all dear
THE Labour Party’s pledge to freeze energy bills is an attempt to rectify a horrible political mistake. But it might be too late to dig us out of the financial black hole caused by political vanity.
In 2008, then Energy Minister Ed Miliband vowed to enact the most stringent cuts in power emissions in the world to achieve an unrealistic 80 per cent cut in carbon emissions by closing down coal power stations. He was playing the role of climate saint to win votes.
I was in the audience in Oxford Town Hall that day and recall the loud cheers from numerous representatives of low-carbon businesses as his policies stood to make them all rather wealthy, albeit at the expense of every electricity consumer in the land.
I thought Ed had become entangled in a spider’s web.
I was concerned at the impact on the consumer as it’s widely known that coal power stations offer the cheapest energy to consumers.
I contacted the Department of Energy and Climate Change and it sent me a lengthy reply mapping out its plans for energy projects and wind turbines – at a projected cost to the consumer of £100 billion – including new infrastructure and national grid amendments.
It explained the cost would be added to consumer electricity bills via a ‘green policy’ tariff. This has now happened and explains the rise in utility bills.
Some consumers wrongly believe the energy companies are ripping them off. In fact, energy bills have risen to pay for policy changes.
The people to benefit from this are low-carbon venture capitalists and rich landowners who reap subsidy money (which ultimately comes from the hard-hit consumer) for having wind farms on their land.
Since Didcot power station closed I’ve suffered five power cuts in my Oxford home. If we have a cold winter, we now have a one-in-four chance of a power cut.
The 2008 legislation was a huge mistake. When power cuts happen, people will be forced to burn filthy coal and wood in their grates to keep warm, emitting cancer-causing particulates.
Didcot had already got rid of these asthma-causing particulates and smoke. It emitted mainly steam and carbon dioxide which aren’t harmful to our lungs. But the clean, non-toxic carbon dioxide emitted by Didcot was classified by Mr Miliband as a pollutant. We are heading into a public health and financial disaster.
SUSAN THOMAS, Oxford
https://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2013/october/ceos-demand-reform-of-eu-renewable-subsidies/78418.aspx
CEOs demand reform of EU renewable subsidies
By Dave Keating – 11.10.2013
Companies ask the EU to stop subsidising the renewable energy sector.
The CEOs of Europe’s ten biggest energy companies called for the European Union and member states to stop subsidising the renewable energy sector on Friday (11 October), saying that the priority access given to the sector could cause widespread blackouts in Europe over the winter.
At a press conference in Brussels, Paolo Scaroni, CEO of Italian oil and gas company ENI, said: “In the EU, companies pay three times the price of gas in America, twice the price of power. How can we dream of an industrial renaissance with such a differential?”
The CEOs said the low price of renewable energy as a result of government subsidies is causing it to flood the market. They called for an EU capacity mechanism that would pay utilities for keeping electric power-generating capacity on standby to remedy this problem.
They also complained that the low price of carbon in the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) is exacerbating the problem…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2458333/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Press-freedom-life-death-matter.html
Well said, Sir Tim
Days after David Cameron orders a review of green taxes, which add £132 to power bills, the Lib Dem Energy Secretary vows to block any attempt to cut them.
Reaffirming his commitment to the levies, which will subsidise record numbers of inefficient wind farms approved this year, Ed Davey adds: ‘I think we will see more price rises.’
The Mail can do no better than quote lyricist Sir Tim Rice, who has declined more than £1million to allow a wind farm on his Scottish estate. ‘I don’t see why rich twits like me should be paid to put up everybody else’s bills,’ he says. ‘Especially for something that doesn’t work.’
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The BBC loses its perch
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In the matter of the BBC and balance in the reporting of Climate Change, I believe they might have lost their perch. Admittedly, it wasn’t a very large perch – and some were swaying in any breeze that came along. But to invite one of the fringiest of the fringe of science “sceptics” onto a Radio 4 broadcast on the day of the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report Working Group 1 demonstrates that the BBC policy on achieving a suitable, accurate and appropriate fulcrum in the balance of science reporting is an ex-policy, a former policy, gone and pushing up the Cleeseian daisies.
Citizens have been piqued, annoyed, needled, frustrated, despairing and, frankly, appalled, and some measures have been taken to remonstrate with the BBC. One such is below. Dear Reader, your comments on the subject of media balance are welcome, unless of course you haven’t read any Climate Change science and think it’s all a hoax, that the scientists are lying, and the Earth’s climate has always gone in similar cycles to the current warming, think that Global Warming is undergoing a “pause” etc etc – because you’re wrong. Plain and simple. If you don’t accept Climate Change science, if you haven’t read any of the relevant research papers, if you haven’t taken the trouble to understand what it’s all about, you are likely to be a clanging gong, a thorn in the side, and your views may well signify nothing, and certainly shouldn’t be aired in a public broadcast without challenge.
It is time for the BBC to stop inviting Climate Change science “sceptics” – no, “deniers” onto their programmes. Once and for all. I mean, to go all Godwin on you, the BBC wouldn’t invite Adolf Hitler onto their shows to comment about the contribution that Judaism has brought to humanity, or to deny the Holocaust ? And they wouldn’t invite the CEO of a cigarette manufacture company on to insist that smoking doesn’t cause lung cancer, would they ? There is a bar, a standard, to which the BBC should aspire, on science reporting, and I feel that in this case they slid disgracefully under it and landed in a stinky puddle of failure on the studio floor. The programme editors should be ashamed, in my honest opinion.
Open letter to Tony Hall, Lord Hall of Birkenhead and Director General of the BBC, on the platform given to Prof Bob Carter on the World at One programme (Fri 27th Sept 2013)
Dear Lord Hall,
We, the undersigned scientists and engineers, write to condemn the appearance of Prof Bob Carter on BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme, and to urge the BBC to seriously rethink the treatment given to climate change in its factual programming, and particularly its coverage of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report.
The BBC, uniquely amongst broadcasters, has a public duty to provide a balanced coverage of news across its media channels, yet when it comes to its coverage of climate change it has frequently failed to do so. Furthermore, the BBC’s status as a trusted source of news means that damage done by its biased reporting of the overwhelming evidence of the certainty and significance of man-made climate change is inexorably greater. Not only does this damage public trust in climate science, but it also damages public trust in scientific evidence in general. This assertion is even supported by the BBC’s own surveys on public attitudes to climate change.
The IPPC’s Assessment Reports represent the consensus of evidence and opinion from thousands of scientists and engineers around the world, working in all of the many fields encompassed by climate change. That consensus is overwhelmingly of the view that the evidence that human activities are driving changes in our climate at an unprecedented rate and scale – there is no ‘climate debate’ in the scientific community.
The appearance of Prof Carter on the World at One, and that of climate change deniers on other BBC programmes, is the equivalent of giving a stork the right to reply on every appearance by Prof Robert Winston. Prof Carter is a geologist who speaks for the “Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change”, or NIPCC, a name which non-experts could be forgiven for confusing with the IPCC, however Prof Carter is not a climate scientist and the NIPCC is not the IPCC.
Indeed, had the editors of the World at One bothered to check the credentials of the NIPCC they would have realised that far from being an independent organisation, it is backed by the Heartland Institute, a US-based free-market thinktank that opposes urgent action on climate change, which is itself opaquely funded by ‘family foundations’ suspected of having significant vested interests in undermining climate science. To return to the analogy, that stork would be funded by the Discovery Institute.
For climate scientists, and those of us working in related fields, it is hard enough to accept that the BBC is required to give a platform to politicians whose lack of knowledge of climate science is matched only by their unwillingness to ‘use sound science responsibly’. When the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson describes climate change as “not all bad” he may be committing an abuse of the evidence and his position, but he at least does so with the rights and responsibilities of a democratically elected Member of Parliament. However when deniers such as Prof Carter use the media to argue that the scientific consensus on climate change is anything but overwhelming, the evidence on which they claim to be basing their arguments, and their sources of funding, are frequently left unrevealed and unquestioned.
It is therefore hardly surprising that the BBC and other media outlets sometimes struggle to find climate scientists willing to speak to them, and by providing a platform for Prof Cater and other deniers the BBC is also complicit in engendering the environment in which climate scientists are often reluctant to speak to the media.
The BBC should now issue an explanation for the appearance of Prof Carter and the treatment given to his opinions on a flagship news programme. Furthermore, it should urgently review the treatment of climate change across all of its outputs, and require full disclosures of any and all vested interests held by commentators on the subject. Finally, it should also ensure that the editorial boards covering all its scientific outputs include members with appropriate scientific backgrounds who are able to give independent advice on the subject matter, and that their advice is recorded and adhered to.
Dr Keith Baker, School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University
Herbert Eppel CEng CEnv, HE Translations
Ms J. Abbess MSc, Independent Energy Research
Chris Jones CEnv IEng FEI MCIBSE MIET
Mark Boulton OBE
David Hirst, Hirst Solutions Ltd
David Andrews, Chair, Claverton Energy Research Group
Ruth Jarman MA (Oxon) Chemistry, Member of the Board of Christian Ecology Link
Gordon Blair, Distinguished Professor, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University
Susan Chapman
David Weight, Associate Director, Aecom
Sam Chapman, En-Count
Camilla Thomson, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh
Dr Rachel Dunk
Prof Susan Roaf, Heriot-Watt University
Helen Woodall
Ian Stannage
Andy Chyba, BSc
Isabel Carter, Chair, Operation Noah
Ben Samuel, BSc
Dr Marion Hersh, University of Glasgow, MIET
Almuth Ernsting
Simon O’Connor
Martin Quick MA CEng MIMechE
Hugh Walding, MA PhD
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Battle of the Lords
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I don’t quite know what powers Lord Deben, John Gummer, but he looks remarkably wired on it. At this week’s PRASEG Annual Conference, he positively glowed with fervour and gumption. He regaled us with tales of debate in the House of Lords, the UK’s parliamentary “senior” chamber. He is a known climate change science adherent, and in speaking to PRASEG, he was preaching to the choir, but boy, did he give a bone-rattling homily !
As Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, he is fighting the good fight for carbon targets to be established in all areas of legislation, especially the in-progress Energy Bill. He makes the case that emissions restraint and constraint is now an international business value, and of importance to infrastructure investment :-
“The trouble with energy efficiency is that it’s not “boys’ toys” – there’s no “sex” in it. It is many small things put together to make a big thing. We won’t get to a point of decarbonisation unless we [continuously] make [the case for] [continuous] investment. […] GLOBE [of which I am a member] in a report – 33 major countries – doing so much. […] Look at what China is doing. Now a competitive world. If we want people to come here and invest, we need to have a carbon intensity target in 2030 [which will impact] [manufacturing] and the supply chain. [With the current strategy, the carbon targets are] put down in 2020 and picked up again in 2050. Too long a gap for business. They don’t know what happens in between. This is not all about climate change. It is about UK plc.”
To supplement this diet of upbeat encouragement, he added a good dose of scorn for fellow Lords of the House, the Lords Lawson (Nigel Lawson) and Lord Ridley (Matt Ridley) who, he seemed to be suggesting, clearly have not mastered the science of climate change, and who, I believe he imputed, have lost their marbles :-
“Apart from one or two necessary sideswipes, I agree with the previous speaker. There is no need for disagreement except for those who dismiss climate change. [I call them “dismissers” as we should not] dignify their position by calling them “sceptics”. We are the sceptics. We come to a conclusion based on science and we revisit it every time new science comes our way. They rifle through every [paper] to find every little bit that suppports their argument. I’ve listened to the interventions [in the House of Lords reading of and debate on the Energy Bill] of that group. Their line is the Earth is not [really] warming, so, it’s too expensive to do anything. This conflicts with today’s World Meteorological Organization measurements – that the last decade has been the warmest ever. I bet you that none of them [Lords] will stand up [in the House of Lords] and say “Sorry. We got it wrong.” They pick one set of statistics and ignore the rest. It is a concentrated effort to undermine by creating doubt. Our job is constantly to make it clear they we don’t need to argue the case – the very best science makes it certain [but never absolute]. You would be very foolish to ignore the consensus of view. […] In a serious grown-up world, we accept the best advice – always keeping an eye out for new information. Otherwise, [you would] make decisions on worst information – no sane person does that.”
He encouraged us to encourage the dissenters on climate change science to view the green economy as an insurance policy :-
“Is there a householder here who does not insure their houses against fire ? You have a 98% change of not having a fire. Yet you spend on average £140 a year on insurance. Because of the size of the disaster – the enormity of the [potential] loss. Basic life-supporting insurance. I’m asking for half of that. If only Lord Lawson would listen to the facts instead of that Doctor of Sports Science, Benny Peiser. Or Matt Ridley – an expert in the sexual habits of pheasants. If I want to know about pheasants, I will first ask Lord Ridley. Can he understand why I go to a climatologist first ? [To accept his view of the] risks effects of climate change means relying on the infallibility of Lord Lawson […]”
He spoke of cross-party unity over the signing into law of the Climate Change Act, and the strength of purpose within Parliament to do the right thing on carbon. He admitted that there were elements of the media and establishment who were belligerently or obfuscatingly opposing the right thing to do :-
“[We] can only win if the world outside has certainty about institutional government. This is a battle we have taken on and won’t stop till we win it. [The Lord Lawson and Lord Ridley and their position is] contrary to science, contrary to sense and contrary to the principle of insurance. They will not be listened to, not now, until UK has reduced level of carbon emissions, and we have [promised] our grandchildren they they are safe from climate change.”
Phew ! That was a war cry, if ever there was one ! We are clearly in the Salvation Army ! I noted the attendance list, that showed several Gentlemen and Ladies of the Press should have been present, and hope to read good reports, but know that in some parts of the Gutter, anti-science faecal detritus still swirls. We in One Birdcage Walk were the assembly of believers, but the general public conversation on carbon is poisoned with sulphurous intent.
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Carbon Bubble : Unburnable Assets
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Yet again, the fossil fuel companies think they can get away with uncommented public relations in my London neighbourhood. Previously, it was BP, touting its green credentials in selling biofuels, at the train station, ahead of the Olympic Games. For some reason, after I made some scathing remarks about it, the advertisement disappeared, and there was a white blank board there for weeks.
This time, it’s Esso, and they probably think they have more spine, as they’ve taken multiple billboard spots. In fact, the place is saturated with this advertisement. And my answer is – yes, fuel economy is important to me – that’s why I don’t have a car.
And if this district is anything to go by, Esso must be pouring money into this advertising campaign, and so my question is : why ? Why aren’t they pouring this money into biofuels research ? Answer : because that’s not working. So, why aren’t they putting this public relations money into renewable gas fuels instead, sustainable above-surface gas fuels that can be used in compressed gas cars or fuel cell vehicles ?
Are Esso retreating into their “core business” like BP, and Shell, concentrating on petroleum oil and Natural Gas, and thereby exposing all their shareholders to the risk of an implosion of the Carbon Bubble ? Or another Deepwater Horizon, Macondo-style blowout ?
Meanwhile, the movement for portfolio investors to divest from fossil fuel assets continues apace…
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Natural sciences grade 4
Life at the north and south
3.11 Life at the north and south poles
Natural sciences grade 4 Page 1 / 1
Planet earth and the universe
Life at the north and south poles
Talking about life in the polar regions
[lo 1.2]
Animal life at the north pole (the arctic)
Wolves, bears, squirrels and small birds live in the forests and in the summer the caribou, which is a sort of American reindeer, migrates to the north where it lives off wild plants.
Musk oxen live off the tundra throughout the year. They defend themselves from attacking wolves by standing in a tight circle.
In the winter most of the animals hibernate. Bears sleep in their lairs for most of the time and the squirrels curl up in their snug holes. They eat sufficient amounts of food in the summer to provide their bodies with energy through the winter.
Walruses also live here. They are family of the seals. They are mammals that are born live and drink from their mothers.
Polar bears are among the largest animals in the world. They have a thick, soft layer of hair against the skin and longer hair that forms a layer of fur over it.
Animal life at the south pole (antarctica):
The albatross is one of the largest of all the seabirds, and also lives at the South Pole. These birds fly over the sea looking for food in the water.
The largest animal in the world, the blue whale, lives in the waters of Antarctica. It grows to a length of 30 metres.
Very few types of animals live in Antarctica, but in the summer months seals and penguins go there to breed. The young are safe because there are relatively few predators to catch them.
Many different kinds of penguins live at the South Pole. The largest is the emperor penguin that can grow up to one metre in height. These birds cannot fly but they do swim very well.
How do people survive at the poles?
The Inuit people live in the Arctic region. They keep warm by wearing clothes made of animal skins. They live in small villages where it is necessary to melt ice to obtain water in winter.
They hunt to obtain food and live in ice huts called igloos. They build circles of ice blocks on top of each other, making the circles smaller and smaller until they form a dome. The spaces in between the blocks are filled with snow.
Another group of people, the Saami, lives in Lapland. They are well known for keeping reindeer for milk, meat and fur. They enjoy wearing traditional clothes when taking tourists for rides on snow sleds.
But these people work in factories nowadays and live in houses made from stone and wood. They wear modern clothes and ride around on snowmobiles.
Write a paragraph of 150 words on how animals have adapted to living in Polar Regions.
LEARNING OUTCOME 1 : SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS The learner will be able to act confidently on curiosity about natural phenomena, and to investigate relationships and solve problems in scientific, technological and environmental contexts.
Assessment Standard
We know this when the learner
1.2 leads investigations and collects data.
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Demi Lovato Is Back On Twitter And Says She’s ‘Filled With Hope’
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Welcome back, girl. We’ve missed you. On Dec. 7, Demi Lovato broke her Twitter silence by retweeting a complete list of the 2019 Grammy nominations — which includes her collaboration “Fall In Line” with Christina Aguilera.
Shortly thereafter, the songstress shared a screengrab from her Instagram Stories along with an inspiring message. “Woke up filled with hope. Dreams come true, y’all. Thank you @xtina. I love you so much.” Prior to that, the 26-year-old hadn’t tweeted since July 21, just three days ahead of her near-fatal drug overdose.
Woke up filled with hope. Dreams come true y’all… thank you @xtina. I love you so much 💕 pic.twitter.com/RqNiSNqf6T
— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) December 7, 2018
With that, not only were Demi’s fans thrilled to see her back on the platform, but they were also incredibly proud of her nomination. “Congratulations, Demi!! I’m happy for you, my queen. You deserve it,” one user wrote. “You deserve all the success and love in the world. I am very proud of the artist and woman than you are. Keeping shining, Demi, we love you so much,” added another.
It seems as though the brunette beauty is slowly but surely easing back into the spotlight. In fact, Demi has been fairly active on Instagram since leaving rehab in November. On Dec. 4, she posted a post-workout selfie and looked totally amazing. “Sweaty, messy jiu-jitsu hair,” Demi wrote along with a couple of hashtags including #nevergiveup.
Never give up, indeed! So much so, that Demi is reportedly already working on new music. “She’s grateful to be alive and at the stage of her life where she wants to help other people, and her music will reflect that,” a source explained to Radar Online. “It’s all about staying strong and positive — one day at a time, of course.”
Seeing as Demi has turned her struggles into beautiful music so many times before, we have no doubt that she’ll be able to do it again. Keep thriving, Miss Lovato! We’re all rooting for you.
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A Retrieved Reformation
All Themes Love and Redemption Work, Ethics, and Morality Change and Identity Justice and the Law
All Characters Jimmy Valentine/Ralph D. Spencer Ben Price Annabel Adams The Warden Mike Dolan Mr. Adams
All Symbols Jimmy’s Tools Annabel’s Rose Ben Price’s Button
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Love and Redemption
Work, Ethics, and Morality
Change and Identity
Justice and the Law
Jimmy Valentine/Ralph D. Spencer
Annabel Adams
Mike Dolan
Mr. Adams
Jimmy’s Tools
Annabel’s Rose
Ben Price’s Button
Jimmy’s Tools Symbol Analysis
Career safecracker and thief Jimmy Valentine’s suitcase of burglar’s tools is mentioned several times throughout “A Retrieved Reformation.” Made in part by Valentine himself, the high-quality tools represent Jimmy’s expertise and dedication to his trade. Jimmy owns “the finest set of burglar’s tools in the East,” and he takes great pride in his custom-made pieces. When five thousand dollars is stolen from a bank-safe in Jefferson City, detective Ben Price knows that Jimmy is the culprit; after all, Jimmy’s “got the only clamps that can do it.”
The tools take on deeper significance after Jimmy falls in love with Annabel Adams and vows to live a straight and decent life. Jimmy “quits the old business” and intends to gift his suitcase of tools to an old friend and fellow thief—so that they may be put to good use. Ironically, as Jimmy is delivering the suitcase, Annabel’s niece, Agatha, becomes accidentally locked in the safe at The Elmore Bank. At the blind behest of Annabel and her family, Jimmy quickly cracks the safe with the tools, freeing Agatha and saving her life. In that moment, Jimmy (living under the guise of Ralph D. Spencer, an honest shoe salesman) sacrifices his false identity and potentially his relationship with Annabel, even though he has used his tools for good instead of bad. In the end, Jimmy’s tools—the very things that make his success as a thief possible—become the means through which Jimmy saves Agatha and redeems himself.
Jimmy’s Tools Quotes in A Retrieved Reformation
The A Retrieved Reformation quotes below all refer to the symbol of Jimmy’s Tools. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Modern Library edition of A Retrieved Reformation published in 1994.
A Retrieved Reformation Quotes
Pulling out from the wall a folding-bed, Jimmy slid back a panel in the wall and dragged out a dust-covered suitcase. He opened this and gazed fondly at the finest set of burglar’s tools in the East. It was a complete set, made of specially tempered steel, the latest designs in drills, punches, braces and bits, jimmies, clamps, and augers, with two or three novelties invented by Jimmy himself, in which he took pride.
Related Characters: Jimmy Valentine/Ralph D. Spencer
Related Symbols: Jimmy’s Tools
From that time on [Jimmy] seemed to be unconscious of the presence of any one else. He laid out the shining, queer implements swiftly and orderly, whistling softly to himself as he always did when at work. In a deep silence and immovable, the others watched him as if under a spell.
Related Characters: Jimmy Valentine/Ralph D. Spencer, Agatha
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Jimmy’s Tools Symbol Timeline in A Retrieved Reformation
The timeline below shows where the symbol Jimmy’s Tools appears in A Retrieved Reformation. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
...dusty suitcase. He opens the case and “gazes fondly” at his set of state-of-the-art burglar’s tools, some of which he actually invented himself. A half an hour later, Jimmy appears back... (full context)
Meanwhile, Jimmy, with his suitcase of burglar’s tools, hitches a ride on a horse-drawn wagon delivering mail and ends up in Elmore—a small... (full context)
...Little Rock to “wind up some little matters” and gift him his suitcase of burglar’s tools. Jimmy knows his friend will appreciate the tools, and since he has “quit the old... (full context)
...breakfast with Annabel and her family, Jimmy readies himself to deliver his suitcase of burglar’s tools to Little Rock. He also has to order his suit for the wedding and he... (full context)
...Adams, her sister, and her sister’s children, Agatha and May. Jimmy grabs his suitcase of tools from the room that he still rents at the hotel and they head to The... (full context)
...took his place.” Jimmy orders everyone away from the safe and begins to remove the tools from his suitcase. (full context)
...safe, he seems to be unaware of those around him. He methodically removes the strange tools from his bag and whistles as he works. Jimmy is silent and appears “immovable” while... (full context)
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The Worst Hard Time
Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Epilogue
All Themes Westward Expansion and the Settlement of the Southern Plains Anglo Culture and Racism Economic Hardship and Lessons of the Great Depression The City vs. the Country Environmental Devastation and the Dust Bowl
All Characters Isaac “Ike” Osteen Jeanne Clark Melt White Louise Walton Bam White John McCarty Harvey Foust Hi Barrick Quanah “Sweet Smell” Parker General Philip Sheridan Charles Goodnight Doctor George “Doc” Waller Dawson “Uncle” Dick Coon C.C. Lucas Louzima Lucas “Big Will” Crawford Sadie White The Folkers Family Andy James George Alexander Ehrlich John Johnson Herbert Hoover Governor William Henry David Murray Franklin Delano Roosevelt Black Jack Ketchum Levi Herzstein Simon Herzstein Maude Edwards Juan Cruz Lujan Joe Garza Hugh Hammond Bennett Caroline Henderson Harold Ickes The Lowery Family Tex Thornton Thomas Jefferson Johnson Don Hartwell Verna Hartwell Arthur Rothstein Pare Lorentz Alexandre Hogue
All Terms Nesters Exodusters No Man’s Land Manifest Destiny The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 Dugout Sod House The Red River War of 1874-1875 The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon Silicosis Dust Pneumonia The Concussion Theory CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Okie The Last Man Club Snuster
All Symbols XIT Ranch Wheat
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Westward Expansion and the Settlement of the Southern Plains
Anglo Culture and Racism
Economic Hardship and Lessons of the Great Depression
The City vs. the Country
Environmental Devastation and the Dust Bowl
Isaac “Ike” Osteen
Melt White
Louise Walton
Bam White
John McCarty
Harvey Foust
Hi Barrick
Quanah “Sweet Smell” Parker
Charles Goodnight
Doctor George “Doc” Waller Dawson
“Uncle” Dick Coon
C.C. Lucas
Louzima Lucas
“Big Will” Crawford
Sadie White
The Folkers Family
George Alexander Ehrlich
Governor William Henry David Murray
Black Jack Ketchum
Levi Herzstein
Simon Herzstein
Maude Edwards
Juan Cruz Lujan
Joe Garza
Hugh Hammond Bennett
Harold Ickes
The Lowery Family
Tex Thornton
Thomas Jefferson Johnson
Don Hartwell
Verna Hartwell
Arthur Rothstein
Pare Lorentz
Alexandre Hogue
Nesters
Exodusters
The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867
Sod House
The Red River War of 1874-1875
The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
Dust Pneumonia
The Concussion Theory
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
The Last Man Club
Snuster
XIT Ranch
The Worst Hard Time Summary
The Worst Hard Time retells the story of the Dust Bowl through the memories and family histories of some of its surviving witnesses, particularly Isaac “Ike” Osteen, Melt White, and Jeanne Clark. Their stories also reveal the history of the Southern Plains. Ike Osteen’s family were among the first nesters in Baca County, Colorado, where Ike has resided for his entire life.
The Southern Plains drew many poor people, some of them outcasts in many places—poor white Southerners and Mexicans, for example—who looked to the Southern Plains as their only chance to own property. Melt White’s family came by coincidence. One of his father’s horses had died near Dalhart, Texas. They were on their way south to a town near Amarillo, when Bam White walked to take a look at the nearby town. He saw a young but bustling town and decided to be a part of it. He soon found a house to rent and work as a sharecropper. Jeanne Clark’s mother, Louise Walton, was a former Broadway dancer who arrived as a “lunger”—one of the many migrants who went to the Southern Plains to take advantage of the clean, dry air. The plains air had indeed cured her respiratory problem. Walton stayed, married a rancher, and gave birth to Jeanne.
Others came to the Southern Plains at the encouragement of railroad companies and local syndicates. Previously, the Southern Plains had been dominated by Southwestern indigenous tribes, notably the Kiowa, the Kiowa-Apache, and the Comanche. The Comanche were a warrior tribe who frequently came into violent conflict with “Anglo” (white) Texans. Anglos had little to no respect for the Comanche. They dismissed the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 and frequently invaded Comanche lands, killing masses of bison—the animal on which the tribe depended for sustenance. After destroying the bison and routing out the Comanche, various ranchers moved in, particularly the cowboys who worked on the XIT ranch. Cattle ranchers assumed that their business could never fail on such abundant grazing lands, but cattle proved to be far too fragile for the harshly cold winters, unlike bison, who would withstand temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit. Those who had invested in cattle ranching, including investors from as far away as Great Britain, needed to turn a profit on the land and were losing great sums due to dying cattle. They decided to divide the XIT ranch into parcels of land that they could sell to potential homesteaders. Railroad companies organized free trains to pick up hundreds of people each month from towns like Kansas City, Missouri, to show them the land they could have in the Southern Plains. Real estate agents were quick and persuasive.
“Uncle” Dick Coon was trying to make a train connection to Houston when an agent persuaded him to remain in Dalhart. He soon ended up owning most of the property in town. Many of the brochures that the realtors designed were written in German to appeal to the many Russo-German immigrants who were entering the area. George Alexander Ehrlich left the Volga River region to find farm land, peace, and freedom from army conscription. When he immigrated to the United States, he carried a packet of turkey red wheat in his pocket—a hearty variety of grain.
The syndicates had lured people with demonstrations of dry farming. A windmill based on the Dutch model would pump enough water from underground to keep livestock fat and healthy. As for farming, wheat would grow just fine with only twenty inches of rainfall. The out-of-work cowboys were skeptical, however. The Southern Plains did not typically get twenty inches of rain—it got around sixteen on average. Then, there were the droughts, hailstorms, and the sudden prairie fires, which were key for rejuvenating the grasslands, but disastrous for crops. Still, people bought the land that the syndicate sold. For many, it was their only chance to own their own piece of American soil. The last homestead act in 1909 had given away the last of the good farm land, and the Southern Plains were all that remained of the frontier. People had also conveniently forgotten how the railroad companies lied to nesters in the northern plains about the ease of farming in cold, arid land.
In the 1920s, the Great Plains prospered as much as the rest of the country. The wheat crops grew tall and green, and farmers sold as much as they could at market. Some farmers were so successful that they made the equivalent of six-figure salaries each year in today’s American dollars. The plow had made their work much easier. They borrowed money from banks to buy more farm equipment and more land to plant more wheat, never thinking that they would have trouble paying off their loans in such a boom. Farmers soon completely overtook the grasslands, not leaving a single acre unturned.
In 1929, the stock market crashed, but those on the Southern Plains did not yet feel the impact. They associated the crash with brokers and “city slickers,” believing that the financial fallout was distant and less relevant to them. Then, the price of wheat dropped to a point that made it nearly impossible to turn a profit. The market was oversupplied with wheat that people could not buy, and farmers began to worry about paying their mounting debts. Then, in 1932, the drought came. The lack of rain, coupled with the acres of upturned soil, created dust storms. People did what they could to protect their homes and bodies from an invasion of dirt that entered and crept through closed windows and under door cracks. Nesters rubbed the inside of their noses with Vaseline and men avoided shaking hands, for the electric shock this produced could knock both of them backwards. Dust pneumonia, a new ailment, was killing children and the elderly. The storms also brought in more vermin, including tarantulas and centipedes. One storm produced a swarm of grasshoppers. There was also an abundance of rabbits who were both a source of food but also a cause of food loss. John McCarty, editor of the Dalhart Texan, encouraged rabbit drives in which citizens would club the animals to death. Melt White watched one of the drives, and later recalled that he could not forget the sound of the rabbits crying as they were being killed.
Though 1934 had been a dreadful year for dust storms and hopeless for growing crops, the worst dust storm arrived on April 14, 1935. It is known as Black Sunday. A giant cloud turned the sky black. While Thomas Jefferson Johnson walked home from the double funeral for Louzima Lucas and Ruth Nell Shaw, he was knocked down. The dust got into his eyes and blinded him permanently.
Something had to be done to prevent future storms. President Roosevelt had already addressed wheat surpluses in his first New Deal package: the government would become the market, providing subsidies to farmers not to plant more than what was needed. The president then enlisted the help of Hugh Hammond Bennett, a soil scientist, who used the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to teach farmers how to regard the soil as part of a larger ecosystem which all farmers were responsible for maintaining.
Still, the combination of the Depression, the drought, and the relentless dust storms made it impossible for some settlers to recover their losses. Some, like John McCarty, simply left. Others, like George “Doc” Dawson, remained, but planted one unsuccessful crop after another. “Uncle” Dick Coon went broke. His properties had been mortgaged and ceased to turn a profit after the Great Depression.
After the Depression, many farmers simply abandoned the land that they had previously exploited, leaving a myriad of acres vulnerable to the wind. Hammond’s encouragement of respect for the soil, coupled with President Roosevelt’s initiative to plant a line of trees from the Canadian border to Texas, helped to revive the plains. However, with the rise of Big Agra, or industrial-scale farming, the agricultural industry repeated many past mistakes. The trees that Roosevelt had planted were mostly cut down, and farmers have not been careful in their use of limited water resources, particularly the Ogallala Aquifer. There have been exceptionally dry seasons. Some have worried that there will be another Dust Bowl. However, Ike Osteen, who lived through the influenza epidemic of 1918, the Dust Bowl, and the invasion on the beach at Normandy, insists that this is merely talk. No drought has matched what he saw during “the Dirty Thirties.”
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DOD Has Enduring Role in Election Defense, U.S. Dep’t of Def., (Feb. 10, 2020).
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Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Activities Measures and Influence Campaigns: Hearing before the S. Comm. on Intelligence, 115th Cong. 30-41 (2017) (statement of Clint Watts, Robert A. Fox Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute).
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Honest Ads Act of 2017, S.1989, 115th Cong. (2017).
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Edward-Isaac Dovere, Why Americans Might Not Trust the Election Results, The Atlantic (May 28, 2020).
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[Paywall] Nathaniel Persily, It’s Not Too Late to Save the 2020 Election, The Wall Street Journal (June 12, 2020).
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[Paywall] Twitter raises the curtain on disinformation. Other companies should take a tip., The Washington Post. (Oct. 19, 2018).
[Paywall] There’s another expert player warming up to online election interference. We should worry, The Washington Post (Sept. 22, 2019).
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An abridged version of this article appeared in The Lawyers Weekly, October 17, 2003.
Preparation and Composure Shine at Grand Moot
By Ben Perrin
"This is a showcase of a classic legal art," said Acting Dean Brian Langille to kick-off the 2003 Grand Moot. McCarthy Tétrault sponsored the annual event on September 23rd which was organized by the Moot Court Committee headed up by Co-Chief Justices Sana Halwani and Alex van Kralingen.
Acting Dean of Law Brian Langille (left) with Justices Joan Lax, Louise Arbour and Robert Sharpe
Mooters Keith Burkhardt (left), Sarah Perkins, Brock Jones and Ryan Morris
Mooter Keith Burkhardt appears before the judges
The appellate level trial centred on two key issues. First, whether the Minister of Corrections owed a fiduciary duty to a prisoner who was sexually assaulted allegedly due to his being forced to share a cell with another inmate. Second, whether a provision prohibiting a clean needle exchange program in prisons was a violation of Section 7 of the Charter.
Keith Burkhardt and Brock Jones appeared on behalf of the appellant, the Minister of Corrections. Sarah Perkins appeared on behalf of the respondent, an inmate named Thomas Trailblazer, and Ryan Morris appeared as intervener for an organization advocating clean needle exchange programs.
"Every government decision will have a negative impact on some part of the population," submitted Burkhardt who stated that the remedy for poor government decisions is to be found in the electoral process and not in the courts in these instances. Burkhardt argued that the expansion of the government's fiduciary duties to this new class of persons, inmates, would be a "slippery slope".
"There is no consensus in the medical community that these [needle exchange] programs work," said Jones. In several light-hearted moments, Jones drew laughter from the audience through a series of arguments in the alternative when he introducing each by saying "But if that doesn't work, we have another argument."
Madam Justice Joan Lax intervened during Jones' submissions to question him on a source relied on in the respondent's factum. "Are you relying on an article from the Kingston Whig-Standard for that submission?" asked Justice Lax, drawing laughter from the standing-room only audience topping two hundred people. Without missing a beat, Jones replied "We'll have to check that with our articling student."
"Trailblazer was totally dependent on the government," said Perkins in arguing that the government owed the inmate a fiduciary duty. Perkins argued that based on analogous situations where the courts have recognized fiduciary relationships, the facts of this case called for a similar response. Perkins, like the other mooters, faced an interventionist bench that raised pointed questions.
"You're asking us judges how to run the prisons," said Mr. Justice Robert Sharpe. Discussing other areas where fiduciary duties could appear based on Perkins' reasoning, Madam Justice Louise Arbour asked: "Are sick people in a fiduciary relationship towards government?"
Morris argued that two principles of fundamental justice were impugned by the government's prohibition on needle exchanges in prisons: the harm principle and so-called "manifest unfairness". Standing his ground, Morris tried to defend his submissions on the principles of fundamental justice from attack by Justice Arbour.
"It is extremely problematic to identify such a broad-based principle as one of fundamental justice," said Justice Arbour.
As is customary, the panel of three judges reserved judgment and did not render a decision. However, they did have plenty to say after the event about the performance of the mooters.
"The composure that the mooters demonstrated was impressive," said Justice Lax.
"Mooting is not just about advocacy skills, but also about learning the law," said Justice Sharpe, "What struck me was the level of preparation of the mooters which is absolutely essential."
Ben Perrin is a student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
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Aura Rosenberg: Skuta Helgason/Theodora (3 reflections) (2008); Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Tween Art: OHWOW Gallery's New Show Explores the Disney Channel Demo
Catherine Wagley July 26, 2012
To understand the new exhibition of tween-influenced art Alex Gartenfeld curated at West Hollywood's OHWOW gallery, it's best to rewind half a century.
Billie Jo Spears, a tame Texas country singer, was 13 in 1950. That year, she cut her first single, “Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys,” a “child's song,” she said. It made being an adolescent sound dismal: Children bore you, adults ignore you.
Judy Garland had sung a similar song years earlier, as a 16-year-old, only her version was called “In Between.” At that point, no one used the flip term “tween” to describe kids ages 9 to 14, but that's what the song was about.
“Fifteen thousand times a day,” Garland sang, “I hear a voice within me say, hide yourself behind the screen/You shouldn't be heard, you shouldn't be seen.” Garland performed this song in a scene from the Andy Hardy series of films, sounding horribly sad at first, then irritated: “I'm too old for toys and I'm too young for boys. … It's such an imposition.”
Now fast-forward decades, past World War II, the Vietnam War and the era of Twiggy, who made flat-chested girl bodies chic. Go past 1975, when commercial photographer Garry Gross shot the 10-year-old Brooke Shields nude in a steamy bathroom, her body oiled and posed. Then go past 1983, when conceptual artist Richard Prince re-photographed Gross' picture of Shields, calling it Spiritual America because Shields, as a fashion model who famously said that nothing comes between her and her Calvin Klein jeans, would turn “out to be the princess of the United States” and because the image had “an oppressive effect, a glowing hallucinatory energy.” Go past 1998, when Britney Spears danced in a schoolgirl uniform, and past 2004, when “tween” first appeared in the American Heritage Dictionary.
Then pause in December 2008, when a vlogger named Erin recorded a video she called “Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys.” She couldn't have been more than 14, and she said “my” constantly: She was sitting in “my” bathtub (“I like the lighting in here, even though it's really awkward”) in front of “my” webcam. She answered questions Internet fans had sent her, about boys, stuff she wanted. She wanted an SLR camera and she'd get one for Christmas, though she didn't know what kind exactly. Cool gadgets, clean bathtub, Internet following: Being in-between was not such an imposition.
That's the situation in which Gartenfeld's OHWOW exhibition — called, of course, “Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys” — arrives, one in which “tween” is a powerful demographic and has been for more than a decade (a 1999 Children's Market Research report found tweens influenced more than $120 billion in U.S. household purchases).
Installation view of “Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys”; Credit: Courtesy OHWOW
The seven artists assembled by New York-based Gartenfeld, an online editor for Interview magazine, make work that might not exist if Kotex didn't wrap tween-targeted tampons in sparkly packages and Sony didn't market new devices to consumers too young to drive.
The show is technologically polished but full of childishly bright colors and flashy, retouched photos, tween taste permeating the art's aesthetic like that “oppressive effect” Prince once felt emanating from oiled-up Brooke Shields.
One artwork in the show, hung against the back wall, pulls your eye straight to it: Donald Moffett's Lot 041212 (cadmium comfort). Perfectly shaped spears of red oil paint stick out from the linen surface, and the piece would resemble a shag rug — one you'd imagine vlogger Erin putting outside her perfectly lit bathtub — if not for the two black holes in its center. Those holes are spaced kind of like the holes in a light socket.
Debo Eilers' sculpture Sweet Soaker has a similar feel. With fashion belts protruding like tentacles from each side and dog toys and brand new T-shirts encased in its plastic body, it has the vibe of a marketable product, even though it's not one at all.
Moffet and Eilers comprise one strand of the show: the stuff strand. The other artists comprise the pop image strand. Josh Kline's Haunted Deodorant combines the blond hair and wide eyes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain with the rounder face and looser posture of rocker Ariel Pink. It's a mutant youth-culture icon made by a Photoshop-savvy millennial.
Photographer Aura Rosenberg's images may be the most telling and unnerving. In the late 1990s, she started enlisting other well-known artists to collaborate with her and a child to make a portrait of that child. She called the series Who Am I? What Am I? Where Am I? The artists would paint the child's face, make a mask or sometimes just pose the child, who was often around tween age.
One image made by Mike Kelley, the late L.A. artist obsessed with the psychology of adolescence, with a boy named Joe shows Joe shirtless, his longish hair a lot like Kelley's do from the late '80s, and the marks on his face like a cross between clown makeup and war paint.
In another image from Rosenberg's series, a young girl named Theodora looks over her shoulder and we see her face reflected three times. She has strawberry blond hair and sad eyes that actually look a lot like Judy Garland's when she sang about being “just an in-between” ages ago.
But Garland's sadness came from feeling left out, ignored by grown-ups. Theodora's sadness is a polished product of an adult project she's been enlisted in, because the grown-ups have started paying too much attention.
“Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys” is at OHWOW Gallery, 937 N. La Cienega Blvd., W. Hlywd., through Sept. 1
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155: Developing Real Immunity
It has been the norm for decades to have ourselves vaccinated, thinking this would protect us from diseases. But do vaccines do the job? Apparently, more and more studies show that vaccines do more harm than develop real immunity.
To those who are seeking real immunity, well, today’s your lucky day. For today’s episode, I’m having a repeat guest—Dr. Cilla Whatcott!
For the listeners who weren’t able to catch Dr. Cilla Whatcott on episode 137 here on Learn True Health, my guest is a staunch advocate of homeoprophylaxis. Homeoprophylaxis helps build real immunity to infections. Most importantly, it is safe and efficient alternative compared to vaccines.
The Truth About Vaccines
Whatcott is set to launch her Real Immunity video documentary series in 2018. While it is currently still in production, I’m inviting everyone to watch “The Truth About Vaccine,” by Ty Bollinger. Like his other project, “The Truth About Cancer” video documentary series, the educational films are both available on my website.
I find it so shocking that a significant majority remain clueless about the gravity of the controversy surrounding vaccines. Did you know a main ingredient of vaccines is using aborted babies? Yes, you read it right. Babies!
And it doesn’t stop there. Vaccines contain mercury, heavy metals, glyphosate and other harmful components.
From what I heard, “The Truth About Vaccines,” will be offered online for free. Hence, please do watch the series and share it with someone who you know could benefit from it.
So is there real immunity using natural methods? The answer is a big YES! Furthermore, building immunity naturally does not cause disease.
Dr. Cilla Whatcott’s Mission
“Mahatma Gandhi once said that the power elicited by fear is nowhere near as effective as the power elicited by love,” said Whatcott.
Whatcott firmly states that her primary goal is to provide a wealth of knowledge to parents about vaccines. She likewise aims to educate more people about homeoprophylaxis in particular.
“This should be the mantra of all parents because, in Western medicine, fear drives us to take vaccines. And ultimately, our love for our children guides us in all the decisions that we make,” Whatcott said.
Effectiveness Of Homeoprophylaxis
Homeoprophylaxis one form of immunity building. It is an integral part of developing real immunity naturally by at least 90%.
“Our birthright is having a robust immunity. That’s how nature created us. We gain that immunity through contact with bacteria and viruses,” Whatcott said. “We also develop real immunity by making sure we have a healthy gut biome especially in the first two years of life.”
Apparently, Homeoprophylaxis is popular in countries like India, Mexico, Cuba and South America. It is, however, unfortunate that it is not widely popular in the United States yet.
Alarming Statistics
I empathize with Dr. Whatcott. Growing up in Canada and coming to live in the United States, I thought the culture and mindset would be the same. Boy, I was wrong. I had culture shock!
It was a rude awakening when I found out that despite having to pay a substantial amount for health care, a lot of Americans suffer from a lot of health issues. Some of these problems are high infant mortality rate, cancer rate, obesity, and diabetes.
Furthermore, a lot of us have to deal with seasonal allergies. But I realized that most of these illnesses are caused by an unhealthy diet. In fact, we think going to a doctor is health care when in fact it is merely disease management.
Remaining Optimistic
Whatcott, however, is hopeful that more people, especially parents, are slowly trying to choose natural alternatives for better health. She claims her client base is steadily rising since people now look for doctors who can connect with patients.
“I have more parents coming to see me and who want to do it naturally. The mere fact that you can sit and listen to a client that is healing right there,” said Whatcott.
I likewise share Whatcott’s frustration whenever I hear medical doctors giving the wrong drugs or administering the wrong dosage. What is even more appalling is that they hardly put importance in embracing a healthy diet. It is infuriating!
Developing A Healthy Immune System
Many factors lead to a healthy immune system. Like a smooth-running factory, real immunity entails having a good nutritional support and metabolism.
“Doctors can’t tell you about nutrition. They are not trained in nutrition at all. It is outside their scope of practice,” Whatcott declares.
Miller’s Study
Whatcott also mentions a significant study done by medical research journalist Neil Z. Miller. Miller’s study on critical vaccines showed that measles, mumps, chicken pox, prevent chronic diseases.
Furthermore, the study indicates that lymphomas, tumors, ovarian cancer are prevented when you develop measles, mumps, and chicken pox. Now, the big question is—“So why are we preventing ourselves from getting them?”
Whatcott affirms that the three last health conditions are not deadly diseases. Western medicine stresses the need for us to be vaccinated to prevent those health conditions from happening.
Furthermore, Whatcott says there was a surveillance study conducted about chicken pox in 1995. That time, the rate of shingles went up because chicken pox is a retro virus.
“If the immune system is stressed, it can come out as shingles. But when you get an external boost from other people having chicken pox, it tones your immune system and keeps you healthy,” explains Whatcott.
Goldman’s Findings
Speaking of shingles, Whatcott mentions another significant study that was conducted by Dr. Gary Goldman. Goldman had a background in computer science and worked as a data analyst on the project.
However, Goldman quit in 2002. Apparently, his superiors, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were trying to suppress the findings on shingles. Consequently, he managed to have his study published in the Vaccine journal in 2003.
The Truth About Flu Vaccines
Whatcott also reveals another mind-blowing controversy. This time, about the flu vaccine. According to her, Cochrane Collaboration, a non-profit organization doing meta-analysis says the flu vaccine when administered to patients under the age of 2 years old, is no better than placebo.
“The flu vaccine was proven by studies that it does not prevent flu-related hospitalizations. Bottomline, there is no benefit,” Whatcott said.
According to a study done in 2012, flu vaccine increases the antibodies for a particular strain. However, Whatcott says the innate arm of the immune system is compromised. Hence, people with the flu vaccine are more prone to pick up other varieties of flu strains.
“Antibodies are not the gold standard of immunity. The gut biome, nutritional status, emotional environment are the things that build immunity,” explains Whatcott. “Your innate health and immunity are what keeps you healthy long-term and prevents chronic disease,”
I strongly agree with what Whatcott said. Honestly, I think a flu shot might help you a little bit. But it disarms the immune system as a whole. That is why a lot of people nowadays are diagnosed with autoimmune disease.
Real Immunity Video Documentary
Whatcott’s video project promises to be a wealth of information about how to develop real immunity naturally. Insights from Chinese medicine, functional medicine, and chiropractic methods will be included in the film.
The documentary will likewise interview client testimonials and experts like Jeanne Ohm, editor of Pathways Magazine, as well as Dr. Andy Wakefield. Wakefield is a pediatric gastroenterologist who wrote a paper saying his study found measles virus in the bowels of the children who were given vaccination shots.
Remote Practice
Whatcott primarily holds practice in Minneapolis. With over a decade of helping families, her practice also extends to providing services online.
Having changed the lives of many people over the years, Whatcott aims to educate more people about the dangers of vaccines. Promoting homeoprophylaxis is just one way of erasing the fear of omitting vaccines from our life.
“Anything that we do just to maintain our health status is going to build immunity. The primary elements to achieve optimal health is through nutrition, exercise, sleep, healthy relationships and rational emotions,” Whatcott said.
Cilla Whatcott is a board-certified classical homeopath with a B.A. from Arizona State University, a diploma from the four-year professional program at Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy, and a Ph.D. in Homeopathy.
She is an instructor at Normandale Community College and the author of“There Is a Choice: Homeoprophylaxis,” and co-author of “The Solution – Homeoprophylaxis.”
Whatcott is also the executive director of Worldwide Choice. She likewise offers individualized homeoprophylaxis programs for adults and children.
Whatcott has been a guest lecturer in France, Scotland, Ireland, Indonesia, the USA, and Canada, and featured in episode 7 of The Truth about Vaccines. She has organized and directed international conferences in 2015 and 2016 about homeoprophylaxis.
Whatcott also has published articles in several periodicals and magazines. She likewise has a certification as a CEASE therapist for reversing vaccine injury.
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Hotel industry issues coronavirus safety guidelines ahead of anticipated travel surge
David Oliver / USA TODAY
Hotels around the country are prepping for travelers to start showing up again amid the coronavirus pandemic. But how can guests know it's safe?
The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) unveiled its SafeStay guidelines on Monday, an effort made in conjunction with major brands like Wyndham, Hilton, Marriott and Best Western to standardize cleanliness.
"It's really an effort to make sure that no matter if you're staying at an extended-stay economy hotel or you're staying at the nicest luxury resort, that there will be at a minimum common standards across the entire industry," Chip Rogers, AHLA president and CEO, told USA TODAY on Sunday.
The report outlines baseline hotel practices and procedures (you can find the full guidelines here) meant to protect employees and guests, including but not limited to:
Hand-washing and hand sanitizer use; dispensers, when possible, should be at major employee and guest entrances and contact spots, such as lobby reception and employee entrances. Signs reminding employees and guests how to wear, handle and throw away masks. A major boost in cleaning practices, with places like hotel guest elevators, front desk check-in stations and public bathrooms cleaned frequently. A request that housekeepers not enter a guest room during a stay unless asked to by guest, or otherwise adhere to established safety protocols. For guests: Physical distancing of at least 6 feet from other groups of travelers. For employees: Physical distancing in dining rooms, training classrooms and more; front desk agents should use every other workstation. Contactless check-in encouraged when possible.
Rogers said it expects hotels to go above and beyond the guidelines. Brands such as Hyatt, Marriott and short-term rental service Airbnb have announced specific cleaning standards in recent weeks.
In addition to setting industry standards, AHLA hopes to use SafeStay as a way to work with local lawmakers looking to regulate hotel properties and as an avenue to creating an enhanced safety guideline certification that may exist permanently.
Rogers says it's good to have a set of universally adopted cleaning standards. While COVID-19 is today's challenge, it wasn't too long ago we had SARS and MERS. Other health challenges probably will emerge in the future.
"The facts tell us it's more than likely that that will happen at some point," Rogers said. If the industry has standards in place, he said, it's in a much better position to make sure everyone understands how clean a hotel room is.
Can the industry convince guests that hotels are safe?
The longer-term problem for the industry is if consumers remain afraid of traveling, which is part of why SafeStay is so important. With these new standards, "they don't have to be fearful of traveling to a hotel," Rogers said.
"Hotels being open or closed or returning to occupancy levels is mostly going to be dependent on consumer demand and much less dependent on necessarily what government regulations are," he said. If a shelter-in-place advisory happens again, almost zero occupancy will return, which is to be expected and understood, he said.
But if people indeed opt to vacation again? Businesses are becoming more comfortable with the idea of providing guests a safe place on the beach where they can get outside and maintain social distancing (if a hotel can provide that and the state has authorized it), Rogers said.
Hotel room demand picking up, but occupancy levels remain low
The push for standards comes as hotel demand has started to creep up over the past few weeks. While at one point about 80% of hotel rooms were empty in the U.S., according to data firm STR, occupancy stood at 26% the week of April 19 to 25. That's still a decline of more than 62% compared with last year.
"Demand has grown slightly across the country during the last two weeks, which could provide some hope that the levels seen in early April were indeed the bottom – especially with some states now moving to ease social distancing guidance," Jan Freitag, STR’s senior VP of lodging insights, said in a statement.
Rogers said best estimates indicate that by late summer, most leisure travel will be back to 60% or 70% of last year. Places like the Florida and California coastlines and Hawaii should begin seeing closer to normal numbers by the end of summer. Oahu Island, Hawaii, had a less than 10% occupancy level, according to STR's report.
More than 40% of demand gain the past few weeks has come from five states: California, Texas, New York, Florida and Georgia. Freitag said that generally, "it is not unreasonable to assume that part of the increased business is coming from essential workers, homeless housing initiatives and government-contracted guests."
Business travel makes the most revenue for the industry, however, and business typically cut travel costs when looking to reduce overall expenses. Rogers said he doesn't expect full business travel to be back until next year. The sector of most concern is meetings and conventions, which may not be back in the swing of things until 2021 or as far out as 2022.
And that's part of the painful reality with which the industry has to contend: "I think the industry will attempt to find all sorts of ways to make sure that rooms are filled and bring in some revenue, but ultimately without going back to normal travel patterns and business conferences and leisure travel, it's going to be a very difficult situation for the industry," Rogers said.
Rogers previously told USA TODAY that half the hotels in the U.S. could close amid coronavirus; he says now that more than half of hotel capacity has shuttered, between the full closure of some hotels and perhaps half the floors closed in hotels that remain open for business.
If revenue streams don't come back, you're going to see individual hotels start closing down, particularly independent hotels without a brand to fall back on when people start traveling again, Rogers said.
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How an upgraded Hugh Moore Park is attracting thrill-seeking kids
Updated Jan 02, 2019; Posted Apr 29, 2017
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Parents: There's no excuse for your children to remain couch-bound this spring.
A zip line highlights the new playground equipment waiting for them to climb on at Hugh Moore Park in Easton.
There's also a new bicycle obstacle course. That -- together with a new stage, fences, paved trail and guard rail -- make up $850,000 in improvements at the seven-mile-long island park along the Lehigh River.
The city-maintained park hosts the National Canal Museum, which is run by the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor. The museum hosts canal boat rides on the mule-drawn Josiah White II.
"I think that the whole idea of the improvement project was to make the park more of a welcome mat for the museum and the boat ride," said City Public Works Director Dave Hopkins. You'd be hard-pressed to find another canal boat ride anywhere else in the region, he said.
Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Executive Director Elissa Garofalo said attendance for the museum and boat ride have increased steadily, about 20 percent year over year. The playground can only help boost that figure.
"We are looking forward to a great 2017 season," Garofalo said.
You can find the bike obstacle course to the left of the park entrance. The only way in and out of the park is through a one-way bridge from Lehigh Drive. The other bridge from Glendon Borough remains closed.
Park ranger Chris Szarko said the city is considering putting in a BMX "pump track" for bicyclists not quite ready for the obstacle course. He envisions the new stage as a site to host car shows or concerts. The added amenities could help attract such events, he said.
"We're looking to make this not just a local park but a destination park," Szarko said.
The canal museum opens for the season on June 3. Garofalo said visitors to the park will be able to rent bicycles after the museum opens.
Another change to the park: dogs are now allowed. The grant paid for a pet station with plastic bags to pick up dog waste.
The park is named for Hugh Moore, who founded the Dixie Cup company.
The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor merged last week with Hugh Moore Historical Park & Museums, completing a three-year transition process integrating each's management, finance, marketing and development functions.
Rudy Miller may be reached at rmiller@lehighvalleylive.com. Follow him on Twitter @RudyMillerLV. Find Easton area news on Facebook.
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Leaker Jon Prosser: Apple Watch and iPad Launching in September, iPhone 12 Event to Take Place in October
Wednesday August 12, 2020 5:31 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple last month confirmed that this year's iPhone 12 models will launch outside of their normal September timeframe and will be "available a few weeks later," which has led to speculation about when an event might be held.
Leaker Jon Prosser, who sometimes shares accurate knowledge of Apple's plans, today said that Apple will hold its iPhone 12 event during the week of October 12, with preorders to take place later that week and shipments to start the week after that.
If these dates are accurate, Apple could hold an event on Tuesday, October 13, accepting preorders for new the lower-cost iPhone 12 models on October 16, and delivering the new devices starting on October 23.
w/c = week commencing (for context) With the staggered release of iPhone 12 and uncertainty of final dates for Pro models, there’s a chance that the dates could slip/change I’ll let you know if anything gets changed! But for now, this is the info in the system 😏 — Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser) August 12, 2020
There have been multiple rumors suggesting the possibility of a staggered release that will see some models launch before other models, which Prosser also says is the case. While the iPhone 12 models will ship in October, Prosser claims the iPhone 12 Pro models will not be available until an unspecified date in November.
Prosser also claims that Apple will release the Apple Watch Series 6 and an unspecified new iPad via press release during the week of September 7. It would be unusual for Apple to unveil the Apple Watch ahead of new iPhones because in past years, iPhone events have also included the Apple Watch.
Prosser says that this info is "in the system," but the staggered release date and the "uncertainty of final dates for the Pro models" means the dates could "slip/change." Last month, Prosser claimed that the iPhone 12 models and new iPads would launch in October.
While Prosser has in the past correctly predicted some of Apple's launch plans, he has also shared incorrect information. In June, he inaccurately claimed that Apple was planning to rename iOS to "iPhoneOS," and he shared images of what he claimed was Apple's AirPower charging mat, with those images later turning out to be a clone device that wasn't the AirPower at all.
Some of Prosser's claims have also been somewhat outlandish, such as his suggestion that Apple is working on a set of Steve Jobs heritage edition Apple Glasses modeled after the glasses that Jobs wore.
Related Roundups: Apple Watch Series 6, iPad Air , iPhone 12
Tag: Jon Prosser
Buyer's Guide: Apple Watch (Buy Now), iPad Air (Buy Now), iPhone 12 (Buy Now)
HeavenDynamic
I don't believe the Apple Watch Series 6 is going to be announced via a press release. It will obviously run watchOS 7 that also needs iOS 14. The final version of iOS 14 obviously contains a lot of informations about the new iPhones. It makes no sense to release it before the event. Look what happened when the iOS 11 GM leaked even tho the iPhone X has only been released in November.
Plus it seems weird to launch new OS, Apple Watch and iPad via press releases rather than wait a few weeks for all the Apple Event hype and media coverage.
if it's delayed until November I'm switching to android...
(someone had to say it)
farewelwilliams
i want to emphasize the article. this is the same leaker that said the Steve Jobs Heritage Edition of AR glasses is coming out which mark gurman has denied.
he also stole leaked photos of the reworked airpower and put his own watermark on them which turned out to be false.
make many guesses and obviously you’d be correct some of the time.
dantracht
Nope. Not falling for his schtick again.
I am not buying what John is selling. There is no way Apple will release the new Apple Watch separately much less press release.
I think John is looking for new channel subscriptions. He is one obnoxious person. I couldn’t make it through one of his videos. That was the first and last time I gave him any of my time.
jmgregory1
I certainly hope Apple launches actual new iPad Pro models on September 7th. I’m itching to upgrade from my 2018 12.9” model, if they put an A14X in it, maybe include 5G. The screen could go on as is, given it’s so good already. Micro LED would be ok if they’re ready for that upgrade.
The other thing I’d like to see changed is the FaceID cameras getting moved to the long edge, since it’s so often used in landscape.
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Apple v Samsung: complete summary of patent trial: UPDATED
Apple and Samsung have taken to a US court in a dispute that could cost either company billions, and change the smartphone and tablet market. Here’s a bit of a run down on what’s at stake. We’ll update this on a daily basis so you can see how it unravels.
By Karen Haslam, Editor | 29 Aug 12
Apple and Samsung have taken to a US court in a dispute that could cost either company billions, and change the smartphone and tablet market. Here’s a bit of a run down on what’s at stake.
We updated this on a daily basis so you could see how it unravels. Now we can tell you that the jury has found Samsung guilty of infringing Apple's patents willfully. Read on to get the whole story.
65% of Macworld readers agreed that Samsung copied Apple. Vote in our poll and join the discussion in our forum: what do you think about the Apple v Samsung trial: Do you think Samsung copied Apple?
Since the trial a number of stories have appeared discussing the ins and outs of the verdict, whether it's the question of the verdict being valid due to claims that the Forman of the jury owns smartphone patents, or a crazy story that claims Samsung paid Apple $1bn with 30 trucks full of nickels. There's also been news that Samsung Smartphone users are floodding the Resale Market with devices now.
Samsung was quick to fire out a statement claiming Apple is engaging in 'outright abuse of patent law, not pursuit of innovation'. Bad loser? Google also chimed in claiming the Apple-Samsung decision isn't related to core Android - just in case any of its clients were worried. But the big question is, following its triumph Will Apple go after Google in Steve Jobs' Thermonuclear war?
But is it really such great news for Apple? Here are Five ways Apple could lose out from its victory over Samsung. One thing is clear though, look at Apple, Samsung and Google's stock and you can see that the stock market punished Samsung, Google for loss
Then there are the stories appearing outlining other cases of Samsung's copying. Like Samsung's Apple Dock-like feature on its new Windows 8 PCs - see What's up Dock: Samsung rips Apple off again.
The trial might be over, but the battle will rumble on for some time. Apple is seeking to block 8 Samsung products after win at jury trial. Of course Samsung says it will fight Apple's effort to ban sales of its smartphone. The Judge will hear Apple's request for Samsung injunction in December,
Some have questioned just how quickly the jurors were able to come up with their verdict. The Apple-Samsung Jurors Say the Video Testimony and Emails Were Persuasive. The Forman of the jury revealed more about his thinking in an enlightening interview.
Looking for more info about the outcome of the trial? Try: Apple's $1 Billion Win Over Samsung: Q&A and What the Apple-Samsung verdict means to you and you'll be an expert in no time.
Day 20: Friday 24 August
On Friday morning the news came in that in a simialr patent dispute trial happening simultaneously in South Korea the court had adjudged that Apple and Samsung both violated one another's patents. The court in that case has returned a mixed verdict that sees both Apple and Samsung fined, and various tablet and smartphone products from both firms banned from sale in that country.
The Korean court determined that Samsung copied the 'bounce-back' interface feature, it determined, but did not copy the overall design of Apple's iPad and iPhone.
The court banned the sale of the iPad 1 and iPad 2 in South Korea, along with the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (more recent launches were unaffected). Samsung will not be allowed to sell the Galaxy S and S2, the Galaxy Tab tablet and 9 other mobile products in South Korea. Yes, it's true: Apple iPhone banned in patent trial verdict… in Korea
However, on this the aniversary of late CEO Steve Jobs resignation, a reward was in store for Apple. As the UK slept, came the announcement that the Jury decided in Apple's favor, Samsung hit with $1B damages. (That's less than the half of the $2.75 billion in damages Apple was seeking).
In most instances the jury found products of the Korean company and two of its US subsidiaries infringed and violated several of Apple's technology and design patents and also concluded that, despite Samsung's claims to the contrary, Apple did not violate any Samsung patents.
The jury also found that Samsung infringed Apple's patents wilfully, or knowingly. In those circumstances a judge can often award treble damages
Samsung later said in a statement, "It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies. This is not the final word in this case or in battles being waged in courts and tribunals around the world, some of which have already rejected many of Apples claims."
Day 19: Thursday 23 August
The nine-person jury was scheduled to work from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But on Thursday they decided that they would work an extra hour, no doubt because of the complex verdict form that demands more than 700 individual decisions be made. Before they sat down to begin deliberations they received 109 pages of jury instructions, which took more than two hours to read to them in court earlier in the week. Read: Apple-Samsung jury extends deliberations.
Day 18: Wednesday 22 August
The nine-person California jury are now set to began their deliberations, but according to Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry, whatever that verdict turns out to be, the ultimate resolution of the conflicts between the companies will be a cross-licensing agreement with a negligible exchange of cash. Analyst: Cross-Licensing Will Be the Conclusion to Apple v. Samsung Trial.
If the jury finds in favor of Apple, he reasoned, Samsung will use its 64,976 mobile patents to force Apple to settle the case as it winds its way through the appeals process.
If Samsung wins the case, Apple will use its 8991 patents to force a settlement from the South Korean company.
Plus, Chowdhry noted, Google will use its 14,770 mobile patents to defend its OEM partners, which includes Samsung.
Want to know more about the likely outcome of the case? We asked experts on the legal system, patent litigation and the smartphone market what they made of the case, read more here: Apple v Samsung: Five experts, five questions.
Day 17: Tuesday 21 August - closing arguments
Closing arguments took place on Tuesday. During a 75-minute presentation, Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny reviewed some of the many hundreds of pages of evidence and testimony produced during the case and presented them as evidence that Samsung deliberately sought to produce what McElhinny called "iPhone knock-offs."
"Samsung makes fun of our damages claim. They make fun of us for asking for billions of dollars," McEhinny said. "The damages should be large because the infringement is massive." Apple's closing arguments summarised
Samsung lawyer Charles Verhoeven didn't argue that the phones weren't similar. Instead, he countered that similarities in the design were due to natural product evolution in the phone industry and that no evidence was presented showing consumers being confused by phones from the two companies.
Apple is "asking you to prevent its biggest competitor from giving consumers what they want -- smartphones with big screens," Verhoeven claimed.
Judge Lucy Koh also read instructions to the jury, including telling them that they must not accept software updates for the devices or install apps. [Apple-Samsung jury told not to upgrade gadgets received as evidence].
The final jury instructions run to 109 pages, in an effort to keep the court awake while reading through the instructions on Tuesday afternoon, Judge Koh said: "I need everyone to stay conscious during the reading of instructions, including myself, so we're going to stand up occasionally to make sure the blood is still flowing."
Click here for the full final jury instructions (pdf).
Day 16: Monday 20 August - 700+ questions for jury
Apple and Samsung bosses failed to reach a settlement in last-minute talks so the trial will now proceed to a jury verdict.
You may want to pity the jury - there are 700 questions on the verdict form that members of the jury have to fill in.
Apple v Samsung jury to face 700+ questions on verdict form
Jurors will have to decide not only if Samsung Electronics infringed on the patents, but also whether its subsidiaries, Samsung Electronics America and Samsung Telecommunications, did so as well. And they will have to do so for up to 24 individual handsets.
The jury will start deliberatings following the closing arguments on Tuesday.
Day 15: Friday 17 August - are lawyers 'smoking crack'?
Today's two biggest stories couldn't be more different. Initially Judge Lucy Koh surprised everyone by yelling at Apple's dawdling legal team, who seemed to be running out of time to present all their witnesses but then gave her a 75-page list of objections related to the witnesses that probably wouldn't have time to appear.
"You want me to do an order on 75 pages tonight? When, unless you're smoking crack, you know that these witnesses are not going to be called?" Koh asked. "Who is going to call all these witnesses when you have less than four hours left?" Read: Apple vs Samsung: despairing judge asks if lawyers are 'smoking crack'
Then things calmed right down, and Samsung - which was running up against a time shortage itself - managed to finish off its testimony and wrap up with a claim for damages. The final figure that Samsung is seeking from Apple is... $421.8m. Read: Apple vs Samsung: Samsung wraps up case with demand for $422m
Day 14: Thursday 16 August - CEOs told to 'make peace' and discuss settlement
Judge Lucy Koh has told Apple and Samsung that it's "time for peace", and warned them that both companies would be taking a risk if the trial proceeded to a verdict.
The judge in the case instructed the CEOs of Apple and Samsung to speak and discuss a settlement at least once a week.
DAY 12: Tuesday 14 August - More Samsung witnesses
Tuesday saw Samsung try and argue that Apple's patents are invalidated by prior art, and a Samsung employee took the stand to claim that she hadn't looked for inspiration from Apple icons, only to be shown a document, with her name on it, that discussed Apple icons. Read more: Samsung designer denies Apple icon inspiration, despite Apple icon research
Samsung’s user experience designer Jeeyuen Wang, who testified in Korean via an interpreter, said that she did not copy Apple’s icons when designing the Galaxy Tab’s iconography. When asked whether it was true that she hadn’t referenced Apple’s icons Wang said: “Yes, that is correct”. Unfortunately for Wang, Apple’s lawyer was able to produce another damning Samsung document with her name on. This document called ‘Mobile Icon Design for 2011’ discusses the importance of icon design and compares icons from the iPhone and other technology products.
Jurors also saw a video of a prototype tablet that could be used for displaying newspapers. And a projector table that had some similar click-and-drag style features.
DAY 11: Monday 13 August - Samsung's witnesses
Samsung’s defense rests on proving that its products don’t infringe the patents, and also that the patents themselves are not valid. Since it's unlikely that Samsung will prove that its products do not infringe Apple’s patents, it's attempting to convince at least one member of the jury that Apple should never have been granted the patents in question (the jury needs to be unanimous in its decision).
Samsung began its attempts to prove prior art to invalidate Apple’s rubber-band (‘381) and pinch-to-zoom (‘915) patents. Called as witnesses were inventors of technolgies that Samsung believes use similar features. However, Apple's lawyers were able to argue that these early examples were not identical to Apple's patents. Read more here: Samsung tries to prove Apple doesn't own rubber-band and pinch-to-zoom patents
Samsung also argued that because Apple was struggling to meet demand for the iPhone 4 at the time it Apple is claiming Samsung benefited from sales of devices that people mistook for iPhones, Apple wouldn't have been able to sell iPhones, and therefore can't claim lost sales.
Samsung managed to get the judge to agree to leave out three phones from the trial. Apple managed to get the judge to agree that President of Samsung Telecommunications America, Dale Sohn, should not speak at the trial.
Apple also managed to get the judge to agree that the principle designer of the Samsung F700 should not testify. In a filing she claims that the design patents for that phone were filed in December 2006 (before the first iPhone launched), she says her inspiration was a bowl of water. Read: Samsung designer was inspired by 'bowl of water' not Apple
There's no such thing as a weekend if you are a lawyer... Samsung and Apple were called in for detention on Sunday by the judge in the ongoing Apple v Samsung trial. She told them to meet up and go through the jury instructions.
Good for a laugh: This site has a great side by side comparison of various Apple and Samsung products.
DAY 10: Friday 9 August - Apple offered patent deal to Samsung in 2010
Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs and then COO Tim Cook offered Samsung a licensing deal back in October 2010 having created a document identifying instances where they believed Samsung was using their patents earlier that year. The terms of Apple's offer would have seen Samsung paying $30 per device, with discount options if they played the game. Read: Apple offered patents to Samsung in 2010.
There was also plenty of cross examination of market research experts who sought to prove that consumers were confused by the similarities between Apple and Samsung devices.
DAY 8: Wednesday 8 August & DAY 9: Thursday 9 August
So far the trial has only convened on Monday, Tuesday and Friday. But the lack of court-side action doesn't stem the flow of informaton relating to the case.
We've seen confidential US sales data emerge that details exactly how many iPads, iPhones and iPod touches have book sold. IT turns out that over the life of the products, Apple has seen revenues of $50,703m for the 85,956m iPhones, $19.074m for the 34,002m iPads, and $46,551m for the 46,551m iPod touch in the US. See: Court filings in Apple v Samsung reveal iPhone, iPad US sales data.
Since 2007 Apple has sold 85 million iPhones in the US. In the past two years Samsung has sold 21.25 million phones.
It also emerged that jurors in the Apple Samsung case have had a pay rise of $10, bringing their ‘salary’ to $50 per day for each day they serve beyond 10 days. AllThingsD suggests that this is a pittance when compared to what the attorneys, consultants and other experts are being paid.
Wednesday also saw Judge Paul Grewal question whether the relevant paperwork had been submitted for the appearance earlier in the week of a Samsung lawyer. It turned out that Susan Estrich is not allowed to practise law in the court - a paperwork mixup that could lead to penalties for the Korean electronics giant. Estrich, is a high-profile lawyer and law professor at the University of Southern California law school is a legal contributor to Fox News, read more here. She had argued that a deleted Samsung email couldn’t be used in the case against Apple. Read: Apple/Samsung trial: Samsung lawyer 'can't practise law in court'
Wondering about the judge in the case? Koh is the first Korean-American to ever serve as a district court judge, according to her Harvard Law School biog, writes Reuters.
DAY 7: Tuesday 7 August
Tuesday saw Icon designer Susan Kare testify in the Apple v Samsung trial. Kare testified that she found the icons and layout of the screens of the Galaxy S and Epic 4G to be similar to the iPhone. She pointed to the rounded corners of the icons, places on an evenly spaced grid, she said: "It is my opinion that the overall collection of graphic features that makes the overall visual impression could be confusing to a consumer.” She was questioned by Samsung's attourney Charles Verhoeven about whether Apple "ownes green for go" when the fact that Samsung's phone icon is a green handset, similar to Apple's icon.
Read more: Apple icon designer accuses Samsung of 'confusingly similar' designs
During the day a 132 page Samsung document that compared the iPhone to the Galaxy S phone was discussed. That document evaluates the two devices and comes up with recommendations about what Samsung should do. In many cases the answer is to make it more like the iPhone. Samsung is told AllthingsD that this document is a “typical competitive analysis,” something “routinely” performed by companies across many industries. Read: Samsung's 132 page lets be more like the iPhone document.
Wondering how Apple arrived at the $2.5 billion figure that it thinks Samsung should pay if found guilty? Read: Apple's pick and mix break down of Samsung's fines.
During preceedings Apple was told off by the judge for attempting to mention the fact that Judge Koh has banned sales of certain Samsung products. Information that she has banned the parties from discussing in front of the jury.
DAY 6: Monday 6 August - Samsung's 'crisis in design'
Samsung strategy officer Justin Denison answered questions from an Apple lawyer about a Samsung email, which Samsung had tried to get excluded from the trial. The email discussed the impact of the iPhone and a "crisis in design" at Samsung. The email said the difference between Samsung and Apple smartphones was like “a difference between Heaven and Earth” and certainly did something to bolster Apple’s claim that Samsung had copied its design of the iPhone.
Also taking the stand on Monday was Peter Bressler, an industrial designer who Apple has paid a total of $75,000 (so far) for his expertise in patents. He pointed to similarities between various Samsung and Apple devices, but in questioning he was caught out by Samsung's attourney when he couldn't produce actual evidence of consumers being confused by the similarities.
Read more: Samsung email points to 'design crisis' due to iPhone 'heaven'
Various stories were posted over the weekend, like this one, rounding up the insider information that has been revealed during the case. For example: Apple did work on a design for an iPhone with curved glass; it turns out Jobs liked the idea of a 7in iPad; Apple once considered maning an iCar; Samsung has revealed plans for two new smartphones, and Samsung may launch a 11.8in Slate.
DAY 5: Friday 3 August - Schiller and Forstall
Judge Koh rejected Apple's request for punishment of Samsung for improperly distributing excluded exhibits - no, she won't rule in Apple's favour just because Samsung was naughty. But while declining to impose the harsh sanction Apple had sought, she slammed both sides for a long string of objections and motions for reconsideration, some on questions that have been revisited as many as six times. She has told them that any more objections and motions that the two companies want to raise will have to be done in court - and that will eat into the 25 hours Apple and Samsung both have to present their case.
"I will not let any theatrics or any sideshow distract us from what we are here to do," Koh said.
Regarding Samsung's 'unlawful' leak to the press of so-called proof that Apple was influenced by a Sony product, reports emerged overnight that Samsung's leaked 'evidence' was iPod-influenced Walkman. Also Samsung's claim that the details were requested by press are being denied by some journalists who received the statment and images without asking for them.
We're starting to think that Samsung's decision to leak the information to the press may have done Apple a favour.
Also on day five senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller picked up where he left off on Tuesday, this time he spoke about his reaction when he saw the first Samsung Galaxy S phone, which he felt copied the iPhone. "I was pretty shocked at the appearance of the Galaxy S phone". Later said he was "even more shocked" when he first saw a Samsung tablet. He also revealed that Apple had spent more than US$1 billion on advertising for the iPhone and iPad combined over the life of the products. Samsung "dilutes the way customers see Apple" because of possible confusion between the two companies' products, according to Schiller.
iOS chief Scott Forstall also took the stand in Apple and Samsung's own Olympic battle. Forstall recalled the early development of the iPhone and iPad. Describing the big investment made to develop the challenging touchscreen interface. He said: "I personally dedicated years of my life to this, as did hundreds of people on this team, and it was very, very difficult."
Forstall and Schiller revealed a number of other interesting snippets during their testimonies on Friday:
- In 2011 Apple exec Eddy Cue recommended making a 7in iPad – he referred to an article that criticised the iPad for its size and praised the 7in Samsung Galaxy Tab. "I believe there will be a 7" market and we should do one. I expressed this to (CEO) Steve (Jobs) several times since Thanksgiving and he seemed very receptive the last time," Cue wrote.
- Apple has spent about $1.1 billion on advertising the iPad and iPhone since the launch of the iPhone in 2007
- After the success of the iPod, Apple considered developing a car or a camera. Forstall revealed the success of the iPod persuaded Apple that it could be more than a computer company.
- The iPhone was called the "Purple Project" and took place in a highly secure workspace on Apple's Cupertino campus called the "Purple Building." The sign at the entrance said, "Fight Club," because the Purple Building borrowed its cardinal rule from the movie of the same name.
Forstal also mentioned the 381’ patent that relates to the “rubber band” effect that occurs when a user attempts to scroll past the end of a displayed document or webpage. Apple reportedly offered to license the patent to Samsung in November 2010, and Jobs met with the company in an effort to settle these issues out of the court room.
Read more: Trial with Samsung reveals Apple's 7-inch iPad vision, 'Purple Project'
Read more here: Judge rejects Apple's punishment against Samsung
Food for though: Apple v. Samsung Highlights Insanity of Tech Patents
DAY 4: Thursday 2 August - 2001: A Space Odyssey
There were no court proceedings on Thursday. It seems that the Judge Koh had her work cut out putting Samsung in its place after that company leaked inadmissible evidence to the press and then piled on one request after another.
The judge also ruled against Samsung using '2001: A Space Odyssey' as evidence in the trial. Samsung wanted to show a still from the film where astronauts are seen using rectangular tablet computers with, Samsung writes: “a dominant display screen, narrow boarders, a predominately flat front surface, and flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table’s surface), and a thin form factor". See: '2001: A Space Odyssey' can't be used as evidence in Apple v Samsung case
Samsung also complained that it's not being treated fairly as a plaintiff, because its lawyers are seated further away from the Jury than Apple's. Apple says that's because it isn't a plaintiff - Samsung is a defendant-counterclaimant - see Samsung wants to play musical chairs in court, judge says no.
Samsung also asked a the court to strike down Apple's "self-serving" recommendation of sanctions against the company for revealing to the press documents that were not allowed as evidence in a patent dispute. Samsung stated that Apple's request is an affront to the integrity of the jury.
Since the courtroom was empty Samsung attorney Christopher Stretch bought five Samsung witnesses, two interpreters, and three Samsung in-house attorneys, to see the Ceremonial Courtroom. He claims he was “unaware of any prohibition against visiting the Ceremonial Courtroom”. See: Samsung breaks rules, takes witnesses to see courtroom.
DAY 3: Wednesday 1 August - Samsung's leaks
Today's headlines continued to be grabbed by Samsung's audacty to send so-called evidence that the Judge Koh had ruled inadmissible to press the day before. See: Samsung gets wrath of judge after leaking so-called 'evidence' to the press
Apple filed its response to this "unethical" press leak and demanded that the company be sanctioned over it's decision to leak so-called 'evidence' to the press.
DAY 2: Tuesday 31 July - Opening Statements
The selection of the jury took so long that the opening arguments were postponed to Tuesday. Each company is to spent up to 90 minutes presenting their opening statements.
Of the ten jurors selected on day one, one juror asked to be released as her employer wasn’t paying her while on the jury. Another of the ten claimed that she’s suffered panic attacks due to the stress of being asked to serve on the case; she was also dismissed. Another juror was late. Those two jurors were replaced.
Apple was first to present its opening statement. Apple counsel Harold McIlhenny showed the jury a selection of Samsung phones from 2006 featuring Qwerty keyboards with hardware buttons. He questioned how Samsung got from these earlier designs to the later designs. He also producted an internal Samsung document from September 2007 reviewing the iPhone's impact. The document stated that competing with the iPhone "one way or the other is inevitable," and also noted that the iPhone hardware was "easy to copy."
Referring to the infringement claims bought by Samsung, Apple’s attorney William Lee suggested that they were only bought in reaction to Apple’s claims against the company. He also claimed that, with regards to Samsung’s Standards Essential Patents, since Apple buys the baseband chips from Intel, and Intel pays the licensing fee, Apple is not at fault.
Samsung claimed that its products do not copy Apple’s, it's just competition. "It's called competition. That's what we do in America."
"Samsung is not some copyist, some Johnny-come-lately doing knockoffs," Samsung’s lead attorney Charles Verhoeven said. He also noted that since Apple is one of Samsung's biggest customers it’s not in its interest to sue it.
Day two of the trial also saw Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller began to testify. He began to discuss Apple's New Product Process, and will continue to speak on day 3.
Apple industrial designer Chris Stringer was the first to testify in the case and worked on the original iPhone. He described Apple's creative process and the "maniacal" team that comes up with the ideas.
Samsung didn't start the day well - Samsung gets wrath of judge after leaking so-called 'evidence' to the press.
Read: Apple, Samsung both claim innovator status in opening of patent trial, and Apple-Samsung patent trial to hear opening arguments on Tuesday
Also: Apple v Samsung: Apple's Phil Schiller describes design process
And: 12 things you need to know about the Apple vs. Samsung patent trial
DAY 1: Monday 30 July - Jury Selection
Apple produces evidence of ‘Purple’ iPhone blueprints dating from 2005 – a year before Samsung claimed they copied a Sony design.
Samsung complains that Apple is being 'unreasonable' about rectangles.
The jury of 10 was selected after a rigorous interview process. Amongst the ten – which includes three women - we have an AT&T project manager.
Want an idea of just how many questions jurors could have been asked? Read: Samsung files 700 jury-screening questions in Samsung v Apple case
The Background in the Apple versus Samsung case
The dispute is focused on Apple and Samsung, but it could be the biggest battle in Apple’s conflict with Google. Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs believed Google’s Android copied iOS. He said: “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this.” That Jobs quote is not to be mentioned during the Samsung trial, on Apple’s request. See: Apple bans Steve Jobs biography from Samsung hearing.
Back the case in hand; Apple versus Samsung. The consumer electronics giants are accusing each other of patent violations. The case now underway in a San Jose court (Apple’s home turf) is one of many being held around the globe.
In April 2011 Apple sued Samsung, accusing them of “slavishly copying” the design of iPhone and iPad as well as interface elements including elastic scrolling and tap to zoom. Apple’s evidence consists of documents that suggest Samsung changed the design of its device after seeing the iPhone. It also has evidence that suggests Samsung was warned by Google and others that its devices looked like Apple’s. The judge will also tell the jury that Samsung is guilty of destroying relevant evidence.
Samsung will claim that it was already working on handsets featuring a screen and a home button before the iPhone was revealed. They were also set to suggest that Apple based the design of the iPhone on a Sony prototype. An ex Apple designer said he was asked to produce mockups of a Sony-like mobile phone back in 2006, he won’t be attending the trial due to health reasons. Initially Apple fought unsuccessfully to keep this evidence from the jury. Then on 30 July Apple produced evidence of iPhone images produced in 2005 and the judge ruled that the evidence would not be seen by the jury.
In what would be the largest award for patent violations, Apple is demanding $2.5 billion in damages. If the judge finds Samsung guilty of “wilful misconduct”, Apple could be awarded three times that.
Samsung countersued Apple demanding royalties for five standard essential patents (SEP) that it claims Apple has infringed. Such industry-standard patents should be licensed on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. The patents cover 3G technology; the integration of a digital camera and email; bookmarking photos; and playing music while using an app.
Incidentally, Google has been saying recently that Apple’s patents should be SEPs.
Samsung claims that Apple rejected its initial license proposal and “to this day has not paid Samsung a dime”.
On the second day of Apple and Samsung's patent trial in Sydney, Apple argued that Samsung is assuming that technology in the iPad and iPhone violates its patents without knowing the actual processes in the devices' chipsets.
Samsung is requesting 2.4% of the sale of each iPhone, which Apple claims is $14.40, more than the 3G chip costs.
The case has been playing out in courts around the globe. In the Netherlands, Apple was found to have infringed Samsung’s 3G patents. In the UK, a judge ruled that Samsung’s tablets don’t infringe Apple’s design because “they are not as cool”, and ordered that Apple should take out ads in the national press saying that they were wrong. Apple has appealed this and will not have to take out an ad, for now.
In Germany a judge upheld a ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 in the EU, saying the smaller Galaxy Tab 7.7 imitated the Apple design in an “unacceptable manner”. He lifted the ban on Samsung’s redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1 N saying it is now “sufficiently different” to the iPad to be considered acceptable.
A jury of ten will hear evidence and will have to come to a unanimous decision The trial is unlikely to last longer than 4 weeks.
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1010 WINS (AM)
WINS-AM aka 1010 WINS (AM) is an American radio station that broadcast news updates and other related stuff. WINS is licensed to the localities of the New York City on the frequency of 1010 kHz on AM dial as well as serving its overseas listeners through webcasting. The radio primarily focuses on promoting the hot and controversial topics and asks experts for their opinions. The channel also invites celebrity figures quite often on their regular talk shows. The offices of the station are based in Hudson Square while its transmitter is established in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, which consumes 50,000 watts of power to air its programming to its worldwide audience.
More about 1010 WINS (AM)
The channel started in 1924 as WGBS which later changed to its current callsign on 15th of January 1932 which stands for World International News Service. The English language station got some affiliation agreements with Bloomberg Radio, Westwood One News, and ABC News Radio. There are also some sibling stations which joins the network WCBS-FM, SFAN, WCBS, WFAN-FM, WNSH, WNEW-FM, and WNYL and collectively owned by Entercom. The contents delivered by the radio are political updates, local traffic and weather details, sports updates and much more. Fans can join the station over social media as well. Here are featured programs from the daily schedule of the channel.
Overnights WINS Morning Drive Midday News
The PM Rush Nights Weekend news
Link to the official site of the radio is 1010wins.radio.com
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Papa John's Keeps The Pizza Party Going
by Sarah Mahoney , Staff Writer @mahoney_sarah, November 10, 2020
America’s still not sick of pandemic pizza. Papa John’s just announced a 24% increase in same-store sales in its third quarter, with stepped-up efforts to improve its financial performance. It’s the fifth consecutive quarter of sales gains, with some experts convinced it could outperform its competitors.
The Louisville, Kentucky-based chain says company revenues rose 17.1% compared to the third quarter of 2019, to $472.9 million. And net income rose to $15.7 million, beating Wall Street expectations.
It also announced a plan to buy back $75 million in shares. “The new share repurchase program demonstrates our commitment to value creation in the near and long term, as well as our confidence in Papa John’s future,” says Rob Lynch, president and chief executive officer, in its announcement.
“The tremendous progress we have made this year -- a fast-growing customer base, a truly differentiated brand, a robust innovation pipeline and a vast global development opportunity -- positions us to continue expanding our slice of the pizza and food delivery market, which itself has a promising future.”
Oppenheimer recently upgraded the company to an “outperform” rating and says the market is undervaluing the strategic changes underway at the company.
The company’s strong sales record is a big part of the story. The company’s “franchise system is enjoying all-time high per-unit sales and cash flow with attractive 3-year paybacks,” writes Brian Bittner, who covers the company for Oppenheimer. “We forecast accelerating unit growth internationally and domestically beginning in 2021.”
And while it’s likely people will begin to scale back a bit on pizza as more dining options open back up, Bittner thinks some experts are overestimating that possibility. “We believe the market overly discounts the potential loss of COVID-era financial gains, discredits new management’s operational playbook and underappreciates catalysts for a powerful unit growth cycle.”
Deutsche Bank, which also just upgraded Papa John's and recommends it as a buy, agrees that fears of "COVID compares" may be overblown. "While this fear is very logical," writes Brian Mullan, an analyst who follows the stock for Deutsche Bank, "this dynamic is also at least partially already reflected in consensus estimates. And while we're not predicting it, the potential does exist for Papa John's to do even better.
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Sarah Mahoney covers the retail industry for MediaPost's "Marketing Daily." She also is a contributing editor for "Parents" and "Prevention." Her work appears regularly in such publications as "AARP The Magazine," "Family Circle" and "Good Housekeeping". You can reach Sarah at sarah.s.mahoney@gmail.com.
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BDS at Stanford: Beinin vs. Zipperstein
by Cinnamon Stillwell
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https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/22228/bds-at-stanford-beinin-vs-zipperstein
The "Stanford Out of Occupied Palestine" divestment petition, which, we noted earlier this week, was signed by history professor Joel Beinin, among other Middle East studies academics, is ruffling feathers in the faculty lounge. Jewish studies professor Steven Zipperstein wrote a letter to the Stanford Daily objecting to divestment, despite being, as he put it, "implacably opposed to Israel's occupation of the West Bank." Beinin responded with his own letter to the editor, noting that, "our views on this are not far apart," but reiterating his support for divestment and challenging Zipperstein and "those who oppose the occupation and oppose divestment . . . to propose what they believe would be a more efficacious strategy."
Get out the popcorn; this could get interesting.
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The Incomplete Highsnobiety Guide To Street Fashion And Culture
This book highlights street fashion’s most influential designers, pieces, and brands.
The Porsche 911 Book Big Edition
Automotive photographer Rene Staud showcases the most important models from the Porsche 911 family - all in his typically radiant and distinctive style.
LOEWE Classics Multicolor
6 classic novels with cover sleeves featuring archive photographs by Steven Meisel.
150 bars you need to visit before you die
A selection of the 150 loveliest international bars, each having a unique story to tell.
Suzanna Jansen: Het Pauperparadijs
'One of the best Dutch nonfiction books. Suzanne Jansen investigates how the poor from the big cities used to be sent to the Peat Colonies against their will, more or less to be re-educated. She also brilliantly describes how poverty and the stigma that comes with it is passed on from generation to generation. I think this book is mandatory, especially in these times when it is often said that everyone has equal opportunities.' — Paulien Cornelisse
Paulien Cornelisse: Het mooiste geluid ter wereld
Niko likes to play the triangle, because it makes the most beautiful sound in the world. PING. But then the peace is disturbed by a gentleman who comes with a bassoon. VOMP. When a girl with a timpani and two ladies with violins also turn up, a cacophony of sound is created: PING, VOMP, Zwie, DOEM. It doesn't sound like much until Niko proposes to play together. And then an orchestra is created and how beautiful that sounds! In collaboration with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
James Worthy – Mottenballen voor de ziel
A collection of James Worthy's best columns from between 2012 and 2017.
Sei Shonagon: Het Hoofdkussenboek
'Sei Shonagon was a lady at the Japanese court in the tenth century. She wrote down what she liked, what bothered her, and what moved her. It is a kind of column bundle that allows you to look directly back ten centuries in time. Sometimes what she writes is extremely strange to people living today, but more often it is completely familiar.' — Paulien Cornelisse
David Sedaris: Calypso
'I think all of David Sedaris's books are very funny and good. In Calypso he adds a layer to his work that is a bit more melancholic. I was moved by this book (but also managed to laugh "as usual").' — Paulien Cornelisse
Curtis Sittenfeld: You Think It, I’ll Say It
'One of my favourite writers and I think this is her best book. A presentation of short stories written so naturally that I think: she must have experienced this herself, otherwise she wouldn't write it like that. However that's not true, she can just write really well.' — Paulien Cornelisse
The Ultimate Ferrari Book
More than 300 pages to view Ferrari—the beauty, sexiness, the class, and artistic finesse of this phenomenon of exquisitely-designed lines.
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About Mims
Contact, Surgeries & Policy
Government unveils path to sustainable farming from 2021
Plans to deliver a better, fairer farming system in England have been set out by government today. They will transform the way we support farmers, in the most significant change to farming and land management in 50 years.
The Path to Sustainable Farming sets out more detail on the changes we are going to make, and what they will mean for farmers.
The key changes include:
Introducing the Environmental Land Management scheme to incentivise sustainable farming practices, create habitats for nature recovery and establish new woodland to help tackle climate change.
Investing in improving animal health and welfare as part of our sustainable farming approach. This will initially focus on controlling or eradicating endemic diseases amongst cattle, pigs and sheep .
Direct Payments will be reduced fairly, starting from the 2021 Basic Payment Scheme year, with the money released being used to fund new grants and schemes to boost farmers’ productivity and reward environmental improvements.
Launching a Farming Investment Fund, which will support innovation and productivity. This will open for applications next year and will be used to offer grants for equipment, technology and infrastructure for the future.
Simplifying and improving existing schemes and their application processes further from January 2021 to reduce the burden on farmers, and we will take a modern approach to regulation, cutting unnecessary red tape for farmers and working together with industry to design a more targeted regulatory system.
Further explanation to the Plan
Debate held in the House of Commons 30/11/20 (Hansard):
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-11-30/debates/585A0C60-CDA2-442F-BCB3-5BE947693756/AgriculturalTransitionPlan
Vaccine Roll-Out in Mid Sussex - Latest Details
Pinned: VOLUNTEERS
As of 19th January I am delighted to confirm that we have received news from the Clair Hall vaccination site volunteer supervisor that they have had an overwhelming number of volunteers come forward and are fully staffed at this time.
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Promoted by Claire Fussell on behalf of Mims Davies, both of Mid Sussex Conservative Association, both at Suite E, KBF House, 55 Victoria Road, Burgess Hill, RH15 9LH
Copyright 2021 Mims Davies MP for Mid Sussex. All rights reserved.
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TOP MÓDA Kroměříž 2017
The Manor Hall of the Archbishop’s Chateau in Kroměříž on a Saturday of May 20, 2017, it was full of splendour, because here, before the eyes of the guests, there was a procession of the most beautiful women and girls of the Czech Republic, dressed in gorgeous robes and extravagant models from leading Czech designers. Names such as Jiřina Tauchmanová, Yvona Leitnerová, Luděk Hanák and Petr Kalouda certainly do not need to be presented to Czech audiences, and Michal Marek, Sandra Švédová and Rozehnalová Opticians also presented interesting girls’ outfits, including fashion accessories.
The organizers of the Miss Princess of the World transnational project, this time together with the year-round advertising partners and organizer of the TOP 20 2017 event (Fatima Agency), prepared this spring promotion of the current winner
of the Miss Princess of the World Czech Republic 2016, Mirka Pikolová, who once again had the opportunity to enthral the audience on the catwalk with wonderful dresses in the fashion show. Under the presenter Jan Čensky’s guidance, she was joined
by her predecessor, another attractive successful Princess of the World - Monika Vaculíková (world 1st Vice Miss Princess of the World 2014) and Michaela Dihlová (world 2nd Vice Miss Princess of the World 2008), along with other models,
the Czech Miss, and musical guest Pavel Vítek. This fashion show was also beneficial to our current Princess as preparation for the October 2011 Miss Princess of the World final on the new luxury ocean cruise ship, MSC MERAVIGLIA.
The highlight of the evening was the charity portion, in aid of the Naděje Centre in Otrokovice, which specializes in helping people with mental and combined disabilities. Representatives of Naděje were handed over a check from the proceeds of the Handbag Trade Fair in Kroměříž, and at the end of the programme, the auction of the most valuable piece took place. The handbag, which Mrs. Věra Špinarová, one of our best known singers, donated to Naděje, was then won in auction by Mr. Ing. Viktor Krča, president of the Miss Princess of the World contest, and thus, her handbag symbolically returned to Ostrava …
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Definitions for "Contract Note"
Keywords: confirm, stockbroker, brokerage, bought, stamp
Related Terms: Confirmation, Confirmation, Repos, Firm offer, Firm price, Auction, Broker, Reverse repo, Comparison, Give up, Repurchase agreement, Commission split, Freeriding, Brokers, Contract to purchase, Trade, Fail, Dealer, Brokerage, Broker-dealer, Transaction, Dealing, Exchange, Discretionary account, Purchase agreement, Buy-in, Open listing, Good delivery, Agreement of purchase and sale, Repo, Contract race, Stockbroker, Purchase and sale agreement, Introducing broker, Offer, Listing contract, Repurchase agreements, Each way, Reverse repurchase agreement, Penalty bid, Offer, Gazundering, Brokerage house, Indication of interest, Purchase contract, Conditional offer, Gazumping, Brokerage firm, Broker/dealer
refers to a document a member-broker must send to the client a contract note within 24 hours of the trade taking place detailing the transaction, to include full title of shares, price, consideration, brokerage and commissions charged etc.
wealthcentre.net
Securities version of a confirmation note.
btinternet.com
A document sent by a broker to clients, outlining details of a share transaction such as the price of the shares and brokerage.
dbsvonline.com
The confirmation received when shares are bought or sold – proof of the transaction for tax purposes.
businesszone.co.uk
A written document confirming a transaction between two dealers or a broker and a client which details the costs, type and quantity of shares traded.
holst.com.au
Documents sent out confirming trades, these can be e-mailed or sent by post.
worldspreads.ie
When you deal in shares, your broker should send you one of these in the following days to confirm what you traded, how much of it you traded, and how much you paid (if buying) or were paid (if selling).
fool.co.uk
See Confirmation Note.
moneymanager.smh.com.au
The confirmation of your share purchase transaction.
financialservices.co.uk
The official form supplied by a broker when an order transacts to either buy or sell shares. The contract note details the particulars of the transaction including, number of shares, price paid, brokerage, etc.
sanford.com.au
On the same day as a transaction takes place, an intermediary sends to the investor a contract note detailing the transaction including full title of the *security, price, stamp duty (if applicable), *consideration, commission, time of deal etc.
jmfs.net
a confirmation done on a particular day for and on behalf of a client
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a record of the trade we executed on your behalf
investdirect.hsbc.co.uk
The first document signed on buying a house is sometimes a Contract Note, instead of a Contract of Sale. This document, when signed by both parties, is as legally binding as a Contract of Sale and the buyer and seller should treat it with the same importance.
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A note which must accompany every security transaction which contains information such as the dealer's name (whether he is acting as principal or agent) and the date of contract.
hsbc.com.hk
A written or printed record of a transaction in securities
issuesdirect.com
A document sent out to confirm a trade. Can be e-mailed or sent by post.
manindex.com
confirmation sent from broker to client detailing the purchase or sale of securities carried out on a client's behalf.
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Confirmation from a broker of the deal that has just been done.
rate.co.uk
See Brokers Note
stocktrade.co.uk
A document sent to the investor on a purchase or sale being made, detailing the price at which the securities were bought or sold.
msconsultants.co.uk
Within 48 hours of a transaction taking place a stockbroker sends to the client a form of advice detailing the transaction, including full title of the stock, price, stamp duty (on purchases), consideration, time of deal, commission etc. This document is called a contract note and should be kept by the client for their records.
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A contract note is evidence that you've bought or sold shares or funds. It is an important legal document given that certificates are rarely physically issued these days.
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The contract note confirms the purchaser's agreement to buy the policy offered, paying the purchase price and taking responsibility for all future premiums up to the maturity of the policy concerned. All rights and obligations of the endowment policy are transferred on the date of purchase. The date of delivery of the policy documents is irrelevant'.
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Document sent by a broker to their client confirming a purchase or sale showing details of price, brokerage and any other charges involved.
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Document sent by brokers to clients of a purchase or sale of shares. It confirms the transaction, giving details of price, brokerage, stamp duty and clearing fee.
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The confirmation of your trade describing the market, the unit of trading, the action (buy or sell), the price and the expiry date
finspreads.com
A legally binding confirmation of each portfolio transaction showing the date of each transaction, description of the security and the amount bought or sold. A contract note is sent after each transaction.
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On the same day as a bargain takes place, a member of the firm must send the client a contract note detailing the transaction, including full title of the stock, price, consideration and stamp duty (if applicable).
moneyserve.biz
The day that a transaction takes place, the broker sends the client a document detailing the transaction, including full title of the stock, price, consideration and stamp duty (if applicable).
offshore-manual.com
Written confirmation of the purchase or sale of an investment issued immediately the bargain is transacted.
goodbody.ie
A document sent to a buyer or seller listing details of the transaction.
shareselect.com.au
A legally binding confirmation of each portfolio transaction showing the: date of each transaction security description amount bought or sold A contract note is sent to you after each transaction.
templebarint.com
Confirmation of your share purchase. With the rise of share trading over the internet, contract notes are increasingly being sent electronically.
Legal document sent by securities house to clients providing details of a transaction completed on their behalf.
sii.org.uk
On the same day as a transaction takes place, a member firm sends to the client a contract note detailing the transaction, including full title of the stock, price, stamp duty (if applicable), consideration, commission etc.
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The record the investor receives from his stockbroker confirming the terms of the deal that the stockbroker has undertaken on their behalf.
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This is sent out to an investor by firms such as fund managers and stockbrokers when a transaction has been completed. It is a legal document that provides the client with all the details of the deal that was made on his behalf.
msol.co.uk
A document given to a would-be buyer which, if signed by both parties, is a binding contract. May precede the more detailed Contract of Sale documents.
acquise.com
If you're buying or selling shares, your broker will send you full confirmation of the transaction, known as a contract note. This is your receipt for the transaction.
thesite.org
A note issued by a broker to his client with regard to his order, stating the number of securities bought or sold in the market along with the rate, time and date of contract.
investsmartonline.com
On the London Stock Exchange, on the day on which a bargain takes place a member firm must send to the client a contract note detailing the transaction, to include full title of the stock, price, consideration, commission and stamp duty (if applicable).
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Keywords: writing, agreement, relating, sale, purchase
An agreement in writing setting out the terms and conditions relating to the sale or purchase of a property.
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1994 – HOH MAGIC – The Prix Morny (Group 1)
This was a “magic moment” for several reasons, but primarily because it was Michael’s first Group One winner. Hoh Magic put up a spectacular display to beat the colts and in the process became champion two year old filly for 1994 as she had already won a Listed and Group Three that year.
1993 – ANCESTRAL DANCER – Italian 1000 Guineas (Group 1)
After only four years with a licence Michael saddled his first classic winner when Ancestral Dancer won stylishly in Rome. She was owned by some extremely enthusiastic owners “Innlaw Racing” who were a collection of London based Barristers. There were days of celebrations and the Romans were made aware that the victory had gone abroad!
1989 – PASS THE PEACE – The Fred Darling Stakes (Group 3)
With Pass the Peace’s victory in this Group Three race Michael joined an exclusive list of trainers whose first winner was Group winner. It was a high pressure day for the fledgling trainer as he had taken over the training of this filly, which was owned by his father Brian Bell when he set up training. Very much in the public eye, as Pass the Peace was an exceptional two year old for her previous trainer Paul Cole, it was a huge relief for all her connections when the filly spread eagled her field.
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Amy Shark has announced a massive 2018 Australian tour
Written by Bianca Davino on 8th May, 2018
After teasing fans yesterday, hinting at the news of a tour, Australia’s very own indie-pop superstar Amy Shark has announced a string of massive national headline shows for August and September this year.
The Love Monster tour will be in celebration of the Hottest 100 trailblazer’s full-length debut, Love Monster set for a release on July 13th. Amy will be taking her emotive live show to Adelaide, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, finishing off the tour with a special performance in her hometown of the Gold Coast.
2018 has already proved to be a massive year for the singer/songwriter, with Love Monster’s first single, ‘I Said Hi’ nabbing the number #2 spot on the airplay charts, making her the highest-charting Australian act since 2016. She’ll also be hitting up Splendour In The Grass this July, a week after the release of her new album, which will prove the perfect opportunity to perform new songs.
“There’s a lot of love and demises and tales. It’s like my diary has opened up to another 13 more songs”, says Shark about the album, noting that Love Monster would be “ten times bigger and better” than 2016’s Night Thinker EP, that featured the likes of ‘Adore’ and ‘Weekends’.
This announcement also accompanies the release of a new video for ‘I Said Hi’ which was co-directed by Amy and Nick Waterman, a 2018 Directors Guild Award Winner.
Check out the new video for ‘I Said Hi’
AMY SHARK – ‘LOVE MONSTER’ AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Presented by triple j, UNIFIED and Select Music
FRIDAY 24 AUGUST – HQ, ADELAIDE
SATURDAY 25 AUGUST – METROPOLIS, FREMANTLE
FRIDAY 31 AUGUST – THE FORUM, MELBOURNE
SATURDAY 01 SEPTEMBER – ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY
FRIDAY 07 SEPT – THE TIVOLI, BRISBANE
SATURDAY 08 SEPTEMBER –NIGHTQUARTER, GOLD COAST
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My 2020 Reading List...
I love to read, but like most busy working parents I struggle to make the time to read as much as I would like. I usually average about one book per month - and realistically I probably can't fit in much more than than, but to help me keep focussed and on-track I've decided to set myself a reading list for 2020.
I have previously kept track of all the books I have read since 2015 - you can find the full list here or on the 'What I'm Reading..' tab at the top of this page.
The books on my reading list for 2020 have either been recommended to me by friends or family, or I've read about them online or on social media and liked the sound of them. Some of the books are new titles by authors whose books I have enjoyed previously.
Here's a brief description of each book (taken from goodreads.com)
Normal People by Sally Rooney
"The first in a gorgeous new series from the author of Summer at the Cornish Cafe.
Summer is on the horizon, and the people of Porthmellow are eagerly awaiting the annual food festival. At least, most of them are…
For Sam Lovell, organising the summer festival in her hometown is one of the highlights of her year. It’s not always smooth sailing, but she loves to see Porthmellow’s harbour packed with happy visitors, and being on the committee has provided a much-needed distraction from the drama in her family life (and the distinct lack of it in her love life).
When their star guest pulls out with only a few weeks to go, everyone’s delighted when a London chef who grew up locally steps in at the last minute. But Gabe Matthias is the last person Sam was expecting to see, and his return to Porthmellow will change her quiet coastal life for ever.
Curl up with this gorgeous novel and savour the world of Porthmellow Harbour."
Work Like A Woman by Mary Portas
"Work Like a Woman is a bold manifesto about why the way we work now is in desperate need of change, how you can campaign to help make this happen and why we will all – men and women – profit from this.
Women today are working in a man’s culture - and it’s holding us back. In Work Like a Woman, Mary Portas examines the world of employment, how it works against women and what needs to change, as she tells the story of her career – and learning to rewrite the rules.
Taking us through her working life, Mary looks at a range of topics from workplace bullying and accessing promotion, to combining a career with children and the affect that getting divorced and becoming a single parent had on her professional life. Speaking candidly about the traps she fell into – from aping the behaviour seen in aggressive corporate environments to recreating a male working culture within her own business – Mary will explode the myth of women ‘having it all’. She will also track her evolution as a business leader and the decision to rebuild her company from the ground up on a model that today embraces female values.
Examining practical issues, including flexible working and equal pay, and also cultural ones - such as gender bias - Mary will argue for a revolution in the way we work.
Work Like a Woman is a manifesto for all: from young women entering the workforce and older women trying to integrate professional and family ambitions, to executives running businesses and creating best practice and the businesses that employ them. Honest, accessible and entertaining, it is a bold and inspiring vision of the future world of work."
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies) by Scarlett Curtis
"An urgent and inspirational collection of essays by a diverse group of celebrities, activists, and artists about what feminism means to them, with the goal of helping readers come to their own personal understanding of the word.
Feminism has never been more deeply and widely embraced and discussed, but what exactly does the F word mean?
Here, personal stories from actors, writers, and activists explore the contradictions and complications at the heart of the movement. By bridging the gap between feminist hashtags and scholarly texts, these essays bring feminism into clear focus.
Published in partnership with Girl Up, the UN Foundation's adolescent girl campaign, contributors include Hollywood superstars like Saoirse Ronan, activists like Alicia Garza, a founder of Black Lives Matter, and even fictional icons such as Bridget Jones.
Every woman has a different route to their personal understanding of feminism. This empowering collection shows how a diverse group of women found their voice, and it will inspire others to do the same."
Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
"A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!"
Educated by Tara Westover
"Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard.
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.
Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it."
The Woman Who Wanted More by Vicky Zimmerman
"Two lonely women.
An unlikely friendship.
And one big life lesson: never be ashamed to ask for more . . .
After a major life upheaval on the eve of her 40th birthday, a reluctant Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind but she has lost her spark, simply resigning herself to the Imminent End.
Having no patience with Kate's plight, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference - it's a 1957 cookery manual, featuring menus for anything life can throw at 'the easily dismayed'. Will Kate find a menu to help her recover from her broken heart? If Kate moves forward, might Cecily too?
The cookbook holds the secrets of Cecily's own remarkable past, and the story of the love of her life. It will certainly teach Kate a thing or two.
So begins an unlikely friendship between two lonely and stubborn souls - one at the end of her life, one stuck in the middle - who come to show each other that food is for feasting, life is for living and the way to a man's heart is . . . irrelevant!"
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
"Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming."
Dear Evan Hansen The Novel by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the Broadway smash hit Dear Evan Hansen. Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why...When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore--even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend. As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he's doing can't be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be? No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself.A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation."
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
"From the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes - a novel of mothers and daughters, families and secrets and the astonishing power of friendship.
Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's Magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing and loving family of misfits - staff and guests alike.
But Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she'd ever loved to boarding school with little explanation and no warning. Now, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother's unaccountable cruelty. Wary of people, her only friend is her dog, Eli. But when her mother dies, Tilda goes back to Brighton and with the help of her beloved Queenie sets about unraveling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel and discovers that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all ... Mothers and daughters ... their story can be complicated ... it can also turn out to have a happy ending."
The Little French Guesthouse by Helen Pollard
"Sun, croissants and fine wine. Nothing can spoil the perfect holiday. Or can it?
When Emmy Jamieson arrives at La Cour des Roses, a beautiful guesthouse in the French countryside, she can’t wait to spend two weeks relaxing with boyfriend Nathan. Their relationship needs a little TLC and Emmy is certain this holiday will do the trick. But they’ve barely unpacked before he scarpers with Gloria, the guesthouse owner’s cougar wife.
Rupert, the ailing guesthouse owner, is shell-shocked. Feeling somewhat responsible, and rather generous after a bottle (or so) of wine, heartbroken Emmy offers to help. Changing sheets in the gîtes will help keep her mind off her misery.
Thrust into the heart of the local community, Emmy suddenly finds herself surrounded by new friends. And with sizzling hot gardener Ryan and the infuriating (if gorgeous) accountant Alain providing welcome distractions, Nathan is fast becoming a distant memory.
Fresh coffee and croissants for breakfast, feeding the hens in the warm evening light; Emmy starts to feel quite at home. But it would be madness to walk away from her friends, family, and everything she’s ever worked for, to take a chance on a place she fell for on holiday – wouldn’t it?
Fans of Jenny Colgan, Lucy Diamond and Nick Alexander will want to join Emmy for a glass of wine as the sun sets on the terrace at La Cour des Roses."
DEEP WATER - Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
"A searing and sinister thriller for readers who liked Gone Girl.
What if your best friend's child disappears? And it was all your fault.
A searing and sinister thriller for readers who liked Gone Girl.What if your best friend's child disappears? And it was all your fault. This is exactly what happens to Lisa Kallisto, overwhelmed working mother of three, one freezing December in the English Lake District. She takes her eye off the ball for just a moment and her whole world descends into the stuff of nightmares. Because, not only is thirteen-year-old Lucinda missing, and not only is it all Lisa's fault, but she's the second teenage girl to disappear within this small tightknit community over two weeks. The first girl turned up stripped bare, dumped on a busy high street, after suffering from a terrifying ordeal.
Wracked with guilt over her mistake and after being publicly blamed by Lucinda's family, Lisa sets out to right the wrong. But as she begins peeling away the layers surrounding Lucinda's disappearance, Lisa learns that the small, posh, quiet town she lives in isn't what she thought it was, and her friends may not be who they appear, either."
A Perfect Cornish Summer by Phillipa Ashley
What genre of books do you love to read? Do you mix it up like me, or do you tend to stick to a specific book type or specific genre? Do you make time to read? Or is it something you wish you could make more time for?
Here's hoping I can get through (at least!) these 12 titles in 2020!
Happy reading folks!
I hope I've been able to provide a little reading inspiration for you...
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Muckle LLP’s Corporate Team retains best dealmaker ranking
Muckle LLP is the North East’s number one law firm for business, having seen the firm and its corporate team achieve market commendations for its deal-making. Andrew Davison, Partner and Head of the Corporate Team, explains more.
The 2015/2016 financial year was important for our firm and our Corporate Team as we achieved our milestone of exceeding £12m turnover. The Corporate Team had one of its greatest years, closing the financial year 18% above target – contributing a significant 22% of the firm’s total turnover.
The Corporate Team also completed its highest ever aggregate value of transactions, valued at almost £1bn. These deals involved a combination of company acquisitions, sales, fundraisings and management buy-outs across all sizes of organisation, from SMEs to publicly quoted companies.
Top dealmaker
The Corporate Team has also retained its position as the North East’s number one dealmaker for 2016 with information services provider, Experian, ranking Muckle as the top dealmaker during the first quarter. It places Muckle LLP in pole position once again, having consistently ranked the firm as the top dealmaker throughout 2014 and 2015.
I am delighted to see that Experian’s latest report for Q1 2016 shows that the Corporate Team has again advised on more mergers and acquisitions of businesses valued above £500,000 in the region than any other law firm. We are proud to have held this position for the last two consecutive years, being the biggest commercial law firm based solely in, and focused on, the North East.
Helping businesses large and small
Many of our clients are small to medium-sized businesses, frequently family-owned. During the past year we have worked with many businesses, each with its own set of challenges, whether that involved helping a company acquire businesses in its supply chain, enabling step-change growth through fresh investment, or the ultimate realisation of value through sale.
We have also been active advising a number of UK and US quoted companies during the year, both on their transactional and regulatory work.
One example towards the end of 2015 involved us advising H&H Group Plc on its £8.2m acquisition of John Swan & Sons Plc, the only UK mart business to be quoted on the London Stock Exchange. The purchase created the UK’s largest livestock auction marts business. We thank Brian Richardson, Chief Executive of H&H Group Plc for his comments at the time, stating: “The Muckle team has displayed determination and enthusiasm alongside their technical knowledge to allow the deal to be completed.”
The start of 2016 saw us advising long-standing client, Kitwave Wholesale, as it continued on its acquisition growth strategy. Later in the year, Kitwave completed a refinancing deal which saw the business raise funds from lead investor Pricoa Capital Group and a co-investment partner Allstate. The transaction also provided an exit for NVM Private Equity, which invested in the business in 2011. Revenues are on track to reach over £260m in the current financial year.
Kitwave, founded by CEO Paul Young, in 1988, has transformed itself from a regional confectionery-based business to a diversified, national wholesaler through 11 acquisitions since 2006.
Longstanding relationships
At the time, our senior partner Hugh Welch spoke of the firm’s delight that Muckle LLP played a leading part in helping the transaction to happen. Hugh has also been closely involved in advising Addison Motors and members of the Squires family on the expansion of their business for over ten years. This has culminated in advising the Squires family on the £87.5m sale of Addison Motors, which traded as Benfield Motor Group, to Lookers. Founded in Newcastle in 1957, Addison Motors is one of the UK’s largest private motor retailing companies and one of the largest private companies in the North East.
Corporate partner Anthony Evans led on advising Trivselhus AB, a leading Swedish pre-fabricated wooden house manufacturer, on its corporate joint venture with the Esh Group.
The joint venture is a critical piece of Trivselhus’ plan to enter the UK market and establish its brand as a quality wooden home builder. Drawing on Esh’s expertise in land acquisition and managing high quality developments, the JV company (trading as Trivselhus by Esh), plans to develop six substantial new residential sites across the North of England in the next three years.
Ken Forster, Managing Director at Trivselhus UK, said of the Muckle team: “This is a team which really knows how to provide excellent service, definitely a notch above the other firms I have used in the region. It is obvious that they care passionately about our work and delivering a great service. That service does not just rest with the senior people in the company; it’s a genuine core competence that is culturally ingrained throughout the organisation from bottom to top. They are fantastically responsive – and always available when I need them.”
Outstanding advice
Partner Philip Clare also advised on the sale of our long-standing client, CAV Aerospace Limited, which was acquired by private equity firm, Better Capital. An initial £40m was committed to the deal by Better Capital to provide working capital and investment for CAV’s future growth. The Consett-based manufacturer is a specialist aerospace manufacturing business, which supplies complex metallic components and sub-assemblies to several major original equipment manufacturers including Airbus, Embraer and Gulfstream.
Owen McFarlane, the former Chief Executive of CAV Aerospace Limited stated: “I have worked with Philip and the Corporate Team at Muckle for many years and their expert advice and enthusiastic determination has been outstanding. Philip has led a number of corporate transactions for us as though they were an extension of our own team.”
The growth throughout the year has led to the Corporate Team recruiting partner Mike Spetch, whose 27 years’ experience includes helping businesses from the North East expand nationally and internationally through mergers and acquisitions. Mike also advises on private equity investments and realisations alongside providing strategic corporate finance advice for management teams.
Meanwhile Adam Rayner and Matthew Walsh have been promoted to Associate Solicitors. Both Adam and Matthew’s promotions are well deserved. Clients regularly praise them both for their knowledge and responsiveness when supporting and leading aspects of the deals they have been intricately involved in.
To top a hugely successful year, Muckle’s leading reputation was commended by being shortlisted by the Solicitors Journal for its Regional Team of the Year 2016 award. This award is open to UK-based or national firms. Solicitors Journal was very impressed with the sheer amount that we do for our local community, beyond our role as legal and business advisers, our dedication to it and also our annual growth figures. They said the North East should be pleased to have us and we have our fingers crossed for the finals on 25 May 2016.
Furthermore, the firm was shortlisted for the fifth time for the Heart of the Community Award in the North East Business Awards 2016, having won this award three times before.
We continue to focus on having the best team in the region, focused on delivering excellent client service and commercial business advice.
We never take any aspects of our success for granted and thank all of our clients and business partners for working with us over the years. We look forward to further strengthening our relationships in the years ahead.
If you or your business require corporate support, please contact Andrew Davison on 0191 211 7950 or email [email protected] or anyone of our team.
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Ex-Ghana coach Claude Le Roy facing prison sentence
Prison sentence has been requested against former Ghana and current Togo Head coach Claude Le Roy for suspected fraudulent cases.
Claude Le Roy is currently on appeal in the case of transfers deemed fraudulent in the early 2000s whilst manager of French side Strasbourg.
The Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office has requested suspended prison sentences and fines against him alongside then RC Strasbourg president Patrick Proisy.
Claude was tried on an appeal case on Thursday for transfers of players tainted with irregularities, at the turn of the 2000s. The Court will deliver its judgment on December 18.
On the last day of the hearing, Advocate General Christophe Mira requested a six months suspended sentence and 25,000 Euros of fine towards the current coach of Togo.
In September 2006, Le Roy was named by the Ghana Football Association as coach of the Ghana national football team. He led Ghana to 14th position in the FIFA World Rankings, their highest position ever, but quit the post in May 2008
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It’s All About the Network….
Persistent Systems is bringing its competence in the mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) domain to bear on an increasing number of defence programmes. In one of many partnering efforts, the New York-based company is a subcontractor for the supply of its WAVE RELAY networking technology to QinetiQ North America, in support of the US Army’s Common Robotic System-Individual programme. Most recently, last month, the company announced it was selected by US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command C5ISR Center to develop protected communications for Manned-Unmanned Teams (MUM-T) – an award concurrent with the service’s acquisition strategy for its Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. The vehicle will conceptually be networked with two or more unmanned Remote Combat Vehicles with their assorted sensor/weapons payloads and, in turn, networked with the broader force and command structure. Indeed, the WAVE RELAY MANET works just as well for dismounts in this and other programmes of record.
Reflecting on Persistent’s expanding portfolio for use in manned and unmanned systems, Brian Soles, Vice President of Business Strategy and Government and Military Affairs, emphasized it “is very much a network company, we’re not a radio company.” He then called attention to the subtle distinction between the labels. “We look at the problems Army modernization is undergoing right now with trying to get the network to the battlefield from a network perspective, not a radio perspective.” To that end, even when Persistent does build a radio, it is a smart-networking device, not a traditional radio. It is capable of providing high throughput data capabilities while units and individuals are moving around the battlefield and is resilient to the congestion of an RF-dynamic and/or contested environment.
While the company’s product portfolio includes its flagship MPU5, it is also present, just as significantly, in the quickly expanding defence embedded market with its smaller Embedded Module, designed for integration into unmanned systems: “whatever the integrator has in mind, it provides that smaller form factor,” Soles added.
Persistent’s partnership construct is the Wave Relay Ecosystem, whose members include Insitu, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and seven other defence industry firms. “We have been working with these partners through the years to help them integrate WAVE RELAY onto their platforms, UGVs and UAVs, sensors and others […] The whole idea is to take the enabling capabilities each of these enabling companies have and bring them to the soldier or marine at the center of the network, and empower that individual with the capabilities unique to each system, making the soldier or marine, and his or her squad or other unit more lethal,” Soles explained.
Persistent Systems’ business horizon in the next 12-18 months includes ongoing efforts with US Army Futures Command’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle and Network Cross Functional Teams. “We’re collaborating with the Army to help them solve problems. This includes any number of use cases where you need a [MANET] like WAVE RELAY, where it can be utilized, from a hand-held networking device for the individual soldier to carry, up to a mounted/unmounted artificial device for enabling soldiers and systems,” Soles concluded.
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Manchester City vs Leicester City Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔵
Manchester City have won six of their last seven Premier League games against Leicester City, losing the other 1-2 on Boxing Day in the 2018-19 season.
Leicester have lost each of their last four Premier League trips to Manchester City since a 3-1 win in the Foxes' title-winning 2015-16 season; this is their longest away league losing streak to the Citizens since August 1961 (five games).
Manchester City have never lost their opening home match in any of their last 25 top-flight campaigns (W16 D9), with their last such defeat coming in the 1989-90 campaign against Southampton (1-2).
Leicester have never won their opening three matches in a single top-flight campaign before -the last time the Foxes did so in any division was in the 1922-23 second tier.
Man City are unbeaten in their last 11 Premier League home games (W10 D1 ), scoring at least twice in each match. Indeed, the Citizens have won their last seven at the Etihad by an aggregate score of 26-1.
Manchester City have been leading by 2+ goals at half-time in each of their last six Premier League matches, a record such run in the competition's history.
Man City's Kevin De Bruyne has been involved in 13 goals in his last 10 Premier League starts (7 goals, 6 assists). He's only failed to register a single goal involvement in two of those eight games, though one of those was against Leicester (1-0 in February).
Man City striker Gabriel Jesus has scored in four of his five Premier League appearances against Leicester (four goals); only against Everton (7) has he netted more in the competition.
Leicester's Jamie Vardy has scored five and assisted one more in his last eight appearances against Man City in the Premier League, netting at the Etihad last term.
He's also the only player to score a top-flight hat-trick against a side managed by Pep Guardiola, doing so in the Foxes 4-2 win against Man City in December 2016.
Manchester City have won 34 of the 35 Premier League games in which Gabriel Jesus has scored, the highest such win rate for any player in the competition (97.1 %, min. 20 games scored).
The Citizens have won the last 32 league games in which the Brazilian has found the net.
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What support is available for freelancers and sole traders during COVID-19?
With the announcement of wage subsidies and other support for businesses impacted by COVID-19, we asked local expert Lynley Averis, owner of AccountAgility NZ, how sole traders and freelancers can apply to receive assistance.
UPDATE (6/4/20): We have since compiled an updated list of all New Zealand stimulus measures so far.
Last week, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced that small and medium businesses that can demonstrate a loss of 30 percent of their usual revenue are eligible for $585.80 a week per full time employee for 12 weeks.
Many sole traders, freelancers and businesses with no employees (there are currently 385,000 New Zealanders who work for themselves) were left wondering whether this package applied to them, and how they can receive support.
The good news is you don’t have to be a business with employees to apply for the Government’s wage subsidy and leave payment scheme. We asked local payroll expert Lynley Averis, of AccountAgility NZ, to help us break down what does and doesn’t apply to sole traders, in easy-to-understand terms.
Available stimulus in summary:
If you’re a sole trader or self-employed worker based in NZ and have had a 30% decline or more in predicted revenue and taken active steps to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on your business, you’re likely eligible for the wage subsidy of 12 weeks at $585.80
If you cannot work because you have been diagnosed with Covid-19 or because you are caring for dependents with the virus or you need to self-isolate (in line with MOH Guidelines) you are likely eligible for the leave payment scheme. This offers sole traders a bulk payment $585.80 for a period of 8 weeks. If you are in the Level 4 lockdown then that does not qualify you for the leave payment
The Key Business Tax Changes Apply to sole traders as well as all businesses
For sole traders who also have a part-time job, your employer can apply for the part-time subsidy and you can also make a self-employed application
NB: This information may well change as the situation develops. We recommend checking back regularly for updates.
As a sole trader, are you eligible for the COVID-19 wage subsidy?
Yes. If you’re a sole trader working in New Zealand or you’re registered and working as a business in New Zealand with a business IRD number, you may qualify for the Government’s 17 March financial rescue package ($585.80 per week), if:
You’ve had a 30% decline or more in actual or predicted revenue, related to Covid-19, over one month when compared with the same month last year. If you haven’t been operating for a year, Averis suggests to check your sales figures (from your invoice book, accounting system or bank statement) for the past month/s. “You can compare to the current month which has the Covid-19 influence. It can be an actual or projected figure,” said Averis.
You’ve taken active steps to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on your business. “Active steps means talking with your accountant or business adviser. They should be able to help pull together your sales figures too.”
Does the COVID-19 Leave Payment Scheme apply to sole traders too?
Yes. ‘Freelancers and the self-employed can apply for the leave payment scheme if they cannot work from home as they have been exposed to the virus or are caring for someone with the virus or they need to self-isolate according to Ministry of Health guidelines,’ explained Averis.
The Leave Payment Scheme offers sole traders weekly payments of up to $585.80 for a period of up to 8 weeks. It comes as a lump sum, is exempt from GST and is not included as taxable income. Averis recommends: “It’s best to track this payment separately in your accounts, due to the GST and tax exemptions”.
Complete the form here to apply for the COVID-19 Leave Payment Scheme.
Do the Key Business Tax Changes apply to sole traders?
Yes. ‘These key business tax changes apply to all businesses, which include sole traders,’ confirmed Averis. The changes include:
Giving a time-limited discretion to Inland Revenue to remit use of money interest (the interest on tax debt) if a taxpayer is unable to pay on time due to the impacts of COVID-19.
The reinstatement of depreciation deductions for commercial and industrial buildings at a 2% diminishing value applying from the 2020-21 tax year.
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Increasing the threshold for provisional tax from $2,500 to $5,000 applying from the 2020-21 tax year.
Is there any Additional Assistance for sole traders?
Yes there is. For sole traders who also have a part-time job, your employer can apply for the part-time wage subsidy and you can also make a self-employed application. So long as the criteria is met.
The Government has also introduced additional measures to support NZ’s most vulnerable people, including:
Removing the hours test from the In-Work Tax Credit to assist those who may face variable hours
A $25 across the board permanent increase to main benefits, from 1 April 2020
A doubling of the amount paid in 2020 through the Winter Energy Payment
When it comes to definitive financial advice, now’s your opportunity to talk to an accredited business advisor to ask them to assist with reviewing actual or forecast decline in revenue, to be eligible for the wage subsidy and other packages.
MYOB has provided this guidance with the assistance of payroll expert and owner of AccountAgility NZ, Lynley Averis. It does not constitute financial advice, and we encourage anyone who believes their business is impacted by COVID-19 to get in touch with an accredited advisor to discuss their options.
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France to expel delivery man refusing Kosher orders
PARIS (AP) — A court in eastern France convicted a delivery driver of anti-Semitic discrimination an Thursday for refusing to take orders for kosher food, and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the Algerian man would be deported after he completes his prison sentence.
The conviction in the city of Strasbourg came two days after a regional Jewish institution, the Israelite Consistory of the Bas-Rhin region, said two kosher restaurants had reported that drivers working for Deliveroo refused to handle their food because they didn’t want to deliver to Jews.
The group and restaurants filed a legal complaint, the consistory said Tuesday, denouncing what it called “openly anti-Semitic discrimination.” Only one deliverer was ultimately involved in the court action.
The interior minister tweeted that the Algerian man, who was in France illegally, had been convicted and handed a four-month prison sentence.
“I decided to expel from the national territory the food ‘deliverer’...who said he did not want to handle deliveries to Jewish clients,” Darmanin wrote.
The Strasbourg prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation into “discrimination based on ethnic origin in the framework of providing a service,” according to a prosecutor’s aide.
Deliveroo spokesman Damien Steffan said Tuesday on local broadcaster France Bleu that the company thinks “anti-Semitic acts, like all racist or discriminatory acts of all kinds, are unacceptable.” Deliveroo has around 14,000 drivers in France and has seen business grow considerably during the coronavirus pandemic.
The case drew the national government’s attention amid long-running efforts to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination. France’s minister for citizenship issues, Marlene Schiappa, met Tuesday with the management of Deliveroo France.
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Home State of the Nation S/West Uncertainty surrounds appointment of new CoS in Kwara
Uncertainty surrounds appointment of new CoS in Kwara
By Usman Aliyu
Ilorin, Sept. 7, 2020 Uncertainty on Monday surrounded the appointment of an Ilorin prince, Alhaji Mahe Abdulkadir as the new Chief of Staff (CoS) to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara.
Newsmen recalls that news of the appointment, went viral on social and prominent online media in the country.
The media was agog with the report that Abdulkadir had been appointed to replace the former Chief of Staff, Adisa Logun, who died from complications of COVID-19 on July 7.
Abdulkadir, a retired Permanent Secretary in the state and son of the immediate late Emir of Ilorin, Aliyu Abdulkadir, is said to be a close ally to the AbdulRazaq family.
When NAN correspondent visited the ancestral residence of Abdulkadir on the Princess road in Ilorin, friends, family members and well-wishers, besieged the place rejoicing.
Mr Taofik Uthman, who spoke with NAN, said that Abdulkadir had received a letter of appointment and would resume immediately.
However, the state government was yet to issue any official statement on the appointment.
When contacted, Malam Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the governor, urged the public to disregard any information related to government that had not come through official channels.
“We have official communication channels.
“We urge the media and members of the public to ignore anything related to the government that has not been communicated through such channels,” Ajakaye said. .
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NBA free agency tracker: Rumors, live updates, trades, analysis
/ by NBC Sports Bay Area Staff
The NBA offseason has been ramping up at a rapid pace. Free agency opens up at 3 p.m. PT on Friday, capping off a week when trades could start happening on Monday and the NBA draft was held Wednesday.
Teams officially can sign free agents on Sunday.
A lot will happen in a short span of time. Some big moves already have happened, too.
Follow along for all the latest news and rumors with trades flying and free agents putting pen to paper.
5:58 p.m. PT: To replace Gasol, the Toronto Raptors agreed to a two-year, $14.3 million contract with center Aron Baynes, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Free agent center Aron Baynes has agreed to a two-year, $14.3M deal with the Toronto Raptors, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
5:55 p.m. PT: The Lakers made a series of moves Sunday to further solidify themselves as the 2021 NBA title favorites. First they traded JaVale McGee to the Cleveland Cavaliers for former Warriors Jordan Bell and Alfonzo McKinnie, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Then, moments later, Marc Gasol agreed to a two-year contract with the Lakers, Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe reported.
Lakers are sending McGee and a future-second round pick to Cavaliers, source tells ESPN. https://t.co/oVWXtMphII
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 23, 2020
Gasol will sign a two-year deal, sources tell @ZachLowe_NBA and me.
4:33 p.m. PT: Austin Rivers' agreement with the Knicks originally was reportedly for one year, but ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Rivers now will get $10 million over three years.
Update on Rivers' contract: Three years, $10M, source tells ESPN. https://t.co/mfOQ2XIne7
4:32 p.m. PT: Two former Warriors -- Omari Spellman and Jacob Evans -- have been traded by the Minnesota Timberwolves to the New York Knicks for Ed Davis, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Minnesota is trading Omari Spellman and Jacob Evans and a future second-round pick to New York for F Ed Davis, sources tell ESPN.
3:10 p.m. PT: Austin Rivers is off the free-agent board as he has agreed to a one-year contract with the New York Knicks, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported, citing sources.
One year deal for Rivers, per source. https://t.co/mfOQ2XZYCH
1:45 p.m. PT: The Boston Celtics have agreed with Jayson Tatum on a five-year extension that could be worth as much as $195 million, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports citing sources.
Jayson Tatum has agreed to a five-year, $195M extension with the Celtics, source tells ESPN.
1:10 p.m. PT: E'Twaun Moore is signing a one-year contract with the Phoenix Suns, his agent tells The New York Times' Marc Stein.
E'twaun Moore is signing with the Phoenix Suns on a one-year deal for $2.4 million, according to his agent Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 22, 2020
12:00 p.m. PT: Former Warriors center Willie Cauley-Stein has re-signed with the Dallas Mavericks on a two-year deal, The Athletic's Shams Charania reports citing sources.
Free agent center Willie Cauley-Stein has agreed to a two-year, $8.2M deal to return to the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
10:25 a.m. PT: Former Warriors first-round pick Damian Jones has agreed to join the Phoenix Suns on a two-year deal, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports citing sources.
Free agent C Damian Jones has agreed to a two-year deal with the Phoenix Suns, sources tell ESPN.
10:20 a.m. PT: Bogdan Bogdanovic agreed to a four-year, $72 million offer sheet with the Atlanta Hawks, and the Kings now have 48 hours to match the agreement, The New York Times' Marc Stein reported citing sources.
Bogdan Bogdanovic has signed his four-year offer sheet worth $72 million from the Atlanta Hawks, league sources say
The deal, I'm told, includes a player option in Year 4 and 15-percent trade kicker for the restricted free agent
The Kings will have 48 hours to match
9:45 a.m. PT: Kent Bazemore will be returning to the Warriors after agreeing on a one-year deal with Golden State, his agent tells Stadium's Shams Charania.
Free agent Kent Bazemore has agreed to a one-year deal with the Golden State Warriors, agent Austin Walton tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
9:30 a.m. PT: The Utah Jazz have agreed with Donovan Mitchell on a five-year extension that could be worth as much as $195 million, his agents told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
The deal is guaranteed for $163M and could increase to the $195M by meeting the All-NBA criteria for the 2020-2021 season. https://t.co/llOeo4t1Xl
Torrey Craig has agreed to join the Milwaukee Bucks on a one-year deal, his agents told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Free agent Torrey Craig has reached agreement on a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, his agents Dave Spahn and Austin Brown of @CAA_Basketball tell ESPN.
9:36 p.m. PT: While the Toronto Raptors are trying to lure Marc Gasol back, the Warriors are showing interest in the veteran center, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported, citing sources.
Another Western Conference team showing interest in signing Marc Gasol, sources tell ESPN: Golden State. https://t.co/L2uGswJn82
9:31 p.m. PT: Serge Ibaka has agreed to a two-year, $19 million contract with the Los Angeles Clippers, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported, citing sources.
Free agent Serge Ibaka plans to sign a 2-year, $19M deal with the Clippers, source tells ESPN.
5:15 p.m. PT: The Warriors have made a move, agreeing to terms with former Boston Celtics guard Brad Wanamaker on a one-year deal.
Free agent G Brad Wanamaker has agreed to a one-year, $2.25M deal to join the Golden State Warriors, his agent Steve McCaskill tells ESPN. Wanamaker played a productive role with Celtics – and now’s expected to see some significant minutes as Steph Curry’s backup.
Brad Wanamaker is a solid backup PG who also can slide to SG. Smart. Plays both ends. Warriors don’t need excitement there. Very good value at $2.25 mil. Still have MLE (5.7 mil) available for a veteran big.
— Monte Poole (@MontePooleNBCS) November 22, 2020
5:03 p.m. PT: Tristan Thompson has agreed to terms with the Boston Celtics on a two-year contract, his agent Rich Paul told Yahoo Sports.
Sources: Two-year, $19 million deal for Tristan Thompson in Boston. https://t.co/U6p14ooIwg
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) November 22, 2020
4:56 p.m. PT: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope will be returning to the Los Angeles Lakers on a three-year deal worth $40 million, his agent Rich Paul told Stadium's Shams Charania.
Free agent Kentavious Caldwell-Pope has agreed to a three-year, $40M deal with the Lakers, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
2:48 p.m. PT: Perhaps the Warriors could pursue Torrey Craig now that he's a free agent.
Good wing defender. Active. Shot is OK https://t.co/zMTjbnxI7i
2:20 p.m. PT: Elfrid Payton has agreed to a one-year deal, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Elfrid Payton has agreed to one-year, $5M deal with Knicks, agents Aaron Mintz and Ty Sullivan of @CAA_Basketball tell ESPN.
2:13 p.m. PT: Carmelo Anthony is returning to the Portland Trailblazers, The Athletic's Shams Charania.
One-year deal for Carmelo Anthony in Portland, sources said. https://t.co/3AiNteh9GN
1:46 p.m. PT: Paul Millsap is returning to the Denver Nuggets, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Free agent Paul Millsap has agreed to a one-year, $10M-plus deal to return to the Denver Nuggets, his agent DeAngelo Simmons tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
1:29 p.m. PT: Rajon Rondo has agreed to a two-year contract with the Atlanta Hawks, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Free agent guard Rajon Rondo has agreed to a two-year, $15M contract with the Atlanta Hawks, sources tell ESPN.
11:40 a.m. PT: Jeff Green has agreed to a deal with the Brooklyn Nets, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Free agent Jeff Green has agreed to a deal with the Brooklyn Nets, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
11:02 a.m. PT: The Suns have agreed to a three-year deal with Jae Crowder, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Jae Crowder will sign a three-year, $30M deal with the Suns, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. https://t.co/yNYPAZX5Dp
10:40 a.m. PT: Avery Bradley has agreed to a two-year contract with the Miami Heat, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Free agent Avery Bradley has agreed to a two-year, $11.6M deal with the Miami Heat, his agent Charles Briscoe tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
10:34 a.m. PT: Gordon Hayward signed an offer sheet with the Charlotte Hornets in 2014 as a restricted free agent. The Utah Jazz were able to keep him, but ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported the Hornets get Hayward.
Hayward signed an offer sheet with Charlotte in 2014 as a restricted free agent. Utah matched and kept him. This time, Charlotte gets Hayward.
9:32 a.m. PT: Fred VanVleet is re-signing with the Toronto Raptors, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Fred VanVleet has agreed to a four-year, $85M deal to re-sign with the Toronto Raptors, agent Brian Jungreis of @ParLay_SE told @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
9:16 a.m. PT: DJ Augustin is joining Milwaukee, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Free agent guard DJ Augustin has agreed to a three-year, $21M deal with Milwaukee, source tells ESPN.
9:02 a.m. PT: Bobby Portis has agreed to join the Milwaukee Bucks, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Free agent Bobby Portis has agreed to a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
8:51 a.m. PT: De’Anthony Melton is returning to the Memphis Grizzlies, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Restricted free agent De’Anthony Melton has agreed to four-year, $35M deal with the Memphis Grizzlies, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
8:15 a.m. PT: Kris Dunn is headed to the Atlanta Hawks, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Free agent guard Kris Dunn has agreed to a two-year, $10M deal with the Atlanta Hawks, sources tell ESPN. Player option on the second year.
7:22 a.m. PT: Moe Harkless is signing with the Miami Heat, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Free agent F Moe Harkless has agreed to a one-year, $3.6M deal with the Miami Heat, sources tell ESPN.
5:54 a.m. PT: Michael Carter-Williams is returning to the Orlando Magic, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Free agent Michael Carter-Williams has agreed to a deal to return to the Orlando Magic, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
5:11 a.m. PT: Denzel Valentine signed the qualifying offer with the Chicago Bulls, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Free agent Denzel Valentine has signed a one-year, $4.7M (qualifying offer) deal with the Bulls, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
9:58 p.m. PT: The Oklahoma City Thunder are going to look very different next season. Steven Adams, a mainstay seven seasons, reportedly is being traded to the New Orleans Pelicans, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported citing sources.
New Orleans is finalizing deal to acquire Steven Adams from Oklahoma City, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. https://t.co/Hx5MSXIgF9
8:02 p.m. PT: Veteran Marcus Morris will be returning to the Los Angeles Clippers next season in agreeing to a four-year, $64 million contract, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported citing sources.
Deal: 4 years, $64M, per source. https://t.co/w8keZqg6hE
7:55 p.m. PT: Washington Wizards star John Wall "has made it clear" he wants out, Stadium's Shams Charania reported citing sources.
As Rockets/Wizards talks on Russell Westbrook-for-John Wall stall, Wall has made it clear he wants trade out of Washington to happen, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
7:22 p.m. PT: The Portland Trail Blazers added one of the best dunkers in the NBA, as Derrick Jones Jr. has agreed to a two-year, $19 million contract, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Free agent Derrick Jones has agreed to a two-year, $19M deal with the Portland Trail Blazers, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
7:07 p.m. PT: Garrett Temple reportedly is leaving Brooklyn for the Chicago Bulls, agreeing to a one-year, $5 million contract.
Free agent Garrett Temple has agreed to a one-year, $5M deal with Chicago, agent Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tells ESPN.
7:01 p.m. PT: A trio of wings came off the market in a matter of seconds. Former Warriors Alec Burks agreed to a one-year, $6 million contract with the New York Knicks, Joe Harris agreed to a four-year, $75 million contract to return to the Brooklyn Nets, and Jerami Grant reportedly agreed to a three-year, $60 million contract with the Detroit Pistons.
Free agent Alec Burks has agreed to a one-year, $6M deal with the New York Knicks, agent Alex Saratsis tells @ZachLowe_NBA and me.
Free agent guard Joe Harris has agreed to a four-year, $75M deal to return to the Brooklyn Nets, his agent Mark Bartelstein @PrioritySports tells ESPN.
Free agent Jerami Grant has agreed to a three-year, $60 million deal with the Detroit Pistons, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
Deal negotiated by agent Mike Kneisley.
6:55 p.m. PT: Davis Bertans, one of the premier shooters on the free-agent market, is returning to the Washington Wizards on a five-year, $80 million contract, his agent told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Free agent forward Davis Bertans has agreed to a 5-year, $80M deal to return to the Washington Wizards, his agent @ArtursKalnitis tells ESPN. Deal includes an ETO after fourth year. One of biggest deals ever for a European-based agent in NBA.
6:41 p.m. PT: Montrezl Harrell is switching locker rooms at Staples Center.
The reigning NBA Sixth Man of the Year is nearing a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported, citing sources.
The Los Angeles Lakers are nearing a deal with Montrezl Harrell, the reigning Sixth Man of the Year, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Harrell, the former Clipper, is getting a two-year contract, with the second year being an option.
Free agent Montrezl Harrell has agreed to a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, agent Rich Paul of @KlutchSports tells ESPN.
ESPN's Bobby Marks reported the details of the contract.
$9.25M and $9.72M
Full Midlevel https://t.co/t2pevonLxV
— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) November 21, 2020
6:07 p.m. PT: The Los Angeles Lakers have emerged as a team that could be targeting center Marc Gasol in free agency, The New York Times' Marc Stein reported citing sources.
Marc Gasol has emerged as a free-agent target for the Lakers to fill the void created by Dwight Howard's departure to Philadelphia, league sources say
5:41 p.m. PT: Rodney Hood will stay in the Western Conference and sign a one-year with the Portland Trail Blazers, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported citing sources.
Free agent F Rodney Hood is returning to the Portland Trail Blazers on a two-year, $21M deal, sources tell ESPN.
5:36 p.m. PT: Dwight Howard is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers on a one-year contract, Stadium's Shams Charania reported citing sources.
Free agent Dwight Howard has agreed to a one-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, his agent Charles Briscoe tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
5:29 p.m. PT: Danilo Galinari is signing a three-year contract with the Atlanta Hawks, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported citing league sources.
Free agent F Danilo Gallinari is finalizing a three-year, $61.5M contract with the Atlanta Hawks, his agent Michael Tellem of CAA Sports tells ESPN.
4:38 p.m. PT: Derrick Favors will sign a three-year contract to return to the Utah Jazz, The Athletic's Tony Jones reported citing sources.
Favors and the Jazz have agreed to a three year 27 million dollar deal, league sources tell The Athletic. The third year is a player option
— Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) November 21, 2020
Jordan Clarkson also will sign a four-year contract with the Jazz, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported citing sources.
Free agent Jordan Clarkson has agreed to a four-year, $52M deal with the Utah Jazz, his agent Rich Paul of Klutch Sports tells ESPN.
4:27 p.m. PT: De'Aaron Fox will sign a max contract to stay in Sacramento, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Sacramento Kings young star De'Aaron Fox has agreed to a five-year, $163M maximum extension, with clause to reach the $195.6M super max, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
Deal negotiated by his agent @chrisgaston_ of @FamFirstSports.
4:22 p.m. PT: Dwight Howard tweeted that he was returning to the Lakers, and The Athletic's Shams Charnia reported that as well. However, minutes later, Howard deleted the tweet and Charania reported that Howard is still evaluating his options.
Update: Dwight Howard continues to consider all of his options. No deal done.
3:40 p.m. PT: DeMarcus Cousins didn't play during the 2019-20 NBA season as he recovered from a torn ACL, but the former Kings and Warriors center is receiving attention from teams, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported. Could a reunion with the Warriors be in the cards?
This isn't an easy free agent market for centers, but here's a former All-Star getting some early attention tonight, per sources: DeMarcus Cousins.
3:29 p.m. PT: The Lakers added another important role player, agreeing to a contract with Wes Matthews, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported.
Matthews texted a photo of a Lakers jersey to Yahoo Sports' Chris Haynes.
Free agent Wes Matthews plans to sign with the Lakers, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
Free agent guard Wesley Matthews sent me this picture: pic.twitter.com/lchvFzp5zB
Charania reported that Matthews' contract with the Lakers is for one year and is worth $3.6 million.
Wes Matthews is signing a one-year, $3.6M deal with the LA Lakers, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. https://t.co/fYHthoXFjE
3:21 p.m. PT: The AP's Tim Reynold reported that big man Meyers Leonard is re-signing with the Miami Heat on a two-year contract with the second season being a team option.
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported a short time later that the two-year contract is worth $20 million.
Meyers Leonard tells The Associated Press that he intends to re-sign with the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat. Source tells AP it is a two-year deal, the second year being a team option.
— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) November 20, 2020
The Meyers Leonard two-year deal with Miami is worth nearly $20M, @caa_sports agents Aaron Mintz and Dave Spahn tell ESPN.
3:01 p.m. PT: Goran Dragic didn't let Woj or Shams break his free agency decision. The veteran point guard announced on Twitter that he is re-signing with the Miami Heat.
The Athletic's Shams Charania reported that Dragic will sign a two-year, $37.4 million contract to stay in South Beach.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨I'm glad that I can announce that I'm staying with my #HeatNationFamily 📝❤️🏀🔥 @MiamiHEAT
Let’s finish the job we started!!!😤💪#LetsGoHeatnation #heatnation #heatfamily #305 pic.twitter.com/ltV769phXF
— Goran Dragić (@Goran_Dragic) November 20, 2020
Free agent Goran Dragic has agreed to a two-year, $37.4M deal to re-sign with the Miami Heat, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
11:40 a.m. PT: Before free agency began, the Warriors waived guard Ky Bowman. With James Wiseman, Nico Mannion and Kelly Oubre joining the roster, Golden State needs to clear roster spots. Bowman proved to be a capable NBA player last season, and should find a new home this offseason.
A day after Klay Thompson tore his right Achilles, the Warriors moved quickly to fill the void, reportedly finalizing a trade with Oklahoma City for forward Kelly Oubre Jr. In the reported deal, the Warriors will part with a top 20 protected 2021 first-round pick (not Minnesota's top three protected first they acquired in the D'Angelo Russell trade).
2:23 p.m. PT
The Sixers have ride themselves of their Al Horford issue. Sending him to OKC along with a first- and second-round pick for Danny Green.
The Sixers are trading Al Horford and a first-round and second-round pick to the Thunder for Danny Green, sources tell ESPN.
There could be a Russell Westbrook blockbuster trade on the way.
The Rockets and Wizards have discussed a deal centered on Russell Westbrook for John Wall, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. No traction yet, Rockets are seeking more assets.
11:26 a.m. PT
As of now, Wizards star Bradley Beal isn't going anywhere.
Wizards GM Tommy Sheppard is asked about Bradley Beal's availability on a pre-draft trade call and he is unequivocal: "Bradley Beal isn't going anywhere."
— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) November 17, 2020
Acording to the New York Times' Marc Stein, the Knicks and Hornets have expressed the most interest in trading for Russell Westbrook
Charlotte and the Knicks are the only teams with verified trade interest in Russell Westbrook, league sources say ... interest with many caveats
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Rodney Hood has declined his player option and will become a free agent, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Portland Trail Blazers F Rodney Hood is declining his $6M player option and becoming a free agent, sources tell ESPN. Hood’s had nearly a full year to recover from a torn Achilles injury and can play right away with a new team.
10:15 p.m. PT
The Milwaukee Bucks are going all-in, as they reportedly will acquire Bogdan Bogdanovic in a sign-and-trade deal with the Sacramento Kings in exchange for Donte Divincenzo. Ersan Ilyasova and DJ Wilson.
The Bucks are trading Donte Divincenzo. Ersan Ilyasova and DJ Wilson in the deal to the Kings, sources said. https://t.co/Vrho6gZQhH
A pair of bombshells were reported just before midnight on the east coast. Robert Covington reportedly is heading to the Portland Trail Blazers, and Jrue Holiday reportedly has been traded to the Milwaukee Bucks.
To clarify: The Blazers are sending Houston the 16th pick in Wednesday's draft and another future first-round pick, per sources. Deal can't be finalized until after Wednesday's draft. https://t.co/hvBf6JppS5
Bucks sending Eric Bledsoe and George Hill and draft compensation to New Orleans, sources said. https://t.co/3K12F8WGI9
Hashtag. This. League.
No sleep 'til Brooklyn for James Harden.
The Houston Rockets star has decided he wants to join Kevin Durant on the Nets, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported Monday.
Sources: After turning down an extension offer to become the first $50M a year player in league history, James Harden’s message to Houston is clear: Get me to Brooklyn. Rockets and Nets have been in contact, but there’s been no meaningful dialogue. https://t.co/qwJOQOxz5U
The Warriors are one of a few contending teams expected to pursue Avery Bradley, Yahoo's Chris Haynes reported.
Yahoo Sources: Potential free agent Avery Bradley to be courted by Golden State, Milwaukee and several contenders in attempt to lure him away from the Los Angeles Lakers.
11:43 a.m. PT: The Athletic's Shams Charania reported James Harden wants to leave the Houston Rockets, and his desired destinations are the Philadelphia 76ers or Brooklyn Nets.
Rockets star James Harden wants to be on a contender elsewhere, and Brooklyn and Philadelphia are believed to be his top desired trade destinations, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
Houston is fully comfortable keeping Harden and Russell Westbrook into the season.
10:08 a.m. PT: The first big blockbuster trade has happened. ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported the Phoenix Suns have acquired All-Star point guard Chris Paul from the Oklahoma City Thunder for Kelly Oubre, Ricky Rubio, Ty Jerome, Jalen Lecque and a 2022 first-round pick. The Suns also will receive Abdel Nader.
The deal sends Chris Paul and Abdel Nader to the Suns for Kelly Oubre, Ricky Rubio, Ty Jerome, Jalen Lecque and a 2022 first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.
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Truck driver ‘war’ about more than migration
Attacks on truck drivers are more than xenophobia, they are part of a political project to further personal agendas and create new centres of power amid a breakdown in trust in the rule of law.
By: Jean Pierre Misago
By: Loren B Landau
2 April 2018: A truck belonging to Durban firm SNB freight, which protesters looted and set alight. The attackers accused the driver of being a foreigner despite his South African driver’s licence. He was trying to escape when the police arrived. (Photograph courtesy of SNB Freight)
The burnt remains of trucks now litter the roads of KwaZulu-Natal. As with other “xenophobic violence”, looking past the targets reveals something far more fundamental – and disturbing – about South African society.
This is not simply random or embittered violence at the hands of those denied the benefits of personal progress by the state or through capitalism. These attacks are a political project that uses resentment and bitterness to further personal and communal political agendas while creating new centres of power.
A form of often violent politics is emerging, in and outside of the ruling party and the state. It operates outside of the law and seeks to broker access to opportunities of various kinds – from jobs to land, tenders and state development – to build forms of authority outside of the laws that regulate the state and the market. In some instances, elected leaders and government officials are directly complicit in these increasingly militant attacks and the political project that drives them.
Politicians’ denial of xenophobia
First, the facts.
Since March 2018, at least 213 people have been killed, 1 400 trucks torched and R1.2 billion worth of goods lost, largely along the route between the port in Durban and Gauteng. The instigators say the trucking industry must stop hiring “foreign nationals” and are demanding that the authorities do something to ensure that “the right people” are employed.
The All Truck Drivers Foundation (ATDF), an organisation that represents truck drivers in South Africa, has warned that its “war” will continue “until all foreigners are gone”.
Members are planning a national shutdown on 18 July, which they are calling “Trucking Black Day”. With four out of five goods in Gauteng shipped along the route from Durban – which is also a supply line to Zimbabwe, Malawi and elsewhere – such actions threaten national and regional economies.
The ongoing violence suggests a shift in target. While the direct target of xenophobic violence has usually been international migrants, or outsiders in general, the current violence targets migrants and South African drivers indiscriminately. The South Africans who have been attacked are from elsewhere in the country or have shown inadequate loyalty to those wielding petrol bombs.
Attacking drivers is a form of political strong-arming designed to close the industry to all that those pushing the aforementioned political project label as outsiders. It is an open war, not only on truck drivers but also owners and the trucking industry as a whole. It is a dangerous development that warrants concern.
This is not an isolated development. For years, metered taxi drivers have attacked Uber drivers – sometimes imposing exclusive claims on access to key nodes in the transport network – and in some instances with apparent impunity. And groups such as the Delangokubona Business Forum have been using armed intimidation to gain access to private construction budgets.
These kinds of tactics are frequently mediated through claims about opportunities for “locals” that explicitly exclude migrants and people from different parts of South Africa. Now that the trucking industry is under attack, it does not seem unreasonable to wonder if similar threats will develop in other industries.
Feeble government efforts
Government efforts to counter assaults on those working in the trucking industry have been feeble. Some perpetrators have been arrested, but few have been prosecuted. Many of those arrested have been charged with a traffic offence and released on bail of R500.
Officials have condemned the violence but seem unprepared to take effective action against perpetrators. Minister of Police Bheki Cele has characterised the attacks on trucks as economic sabotage. This is true, but labelling them as such denies the immense social and political consequences of these attacks.
What is at stake extends well beyond debates relating to migration or protection for South Africa’s struggling workers in a time of mass structural unemployment and economic decline. It is disingenuous, and dangerous, to dismiss these as attacks on people who “shouldn’t be here anyway”. Making this about migration distracts us from what matters.
South Africa’s unemployment rate is officially over 27%. It is far higher in the places where violence typically occurs. But this violence is not about removing migrants, it is more generally about a dangerous politics of localism and entitlement, and rationing access to rights and opportunities: housing, healthcare, education, business opportunities, labour markets and the like. It is about the emergence of a politics of local strongmen in response to a general breakdown in trust in the rule of law.
Exclusion as ammunition
Government officials often act to placate such assertions and sentiments even while publicly condemning the violence they beget. Throughout the country, local political battles are being fought with exclusion as ammunition.
This was a repeated feature of contestation during recent election campaigns. Tacitly or explicitly endorsing exclusion can win votes or popularity for officials and institutions whose legitimacy is under threat. Promising to exclude people from another country, another party, another township or another province can bolster political careers for those who have little else to offer.
Whether driven from within or outside of the state, or an alliance of actors in and outside of the state, a politics of exclusion offers short-term political gains for a few while exacerbating the weakness of South Africa’s already fragile national economy. It reduces the prospects of constitutional protection and democratic forms of disputation for the many. Every victory creates further incentives for violent exclusion, a process that is seldom restricted to people who do not hold South African citizenship.
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Whether in Gugulethu, Ermelo or Durban, local residents regularly exclude people deemed to be “outsiders” regardless of their citizenship. Whether it is jobs, houses, municipal services or living spaces, people are denied rights on the grounds of where they are from, even when that is elsewhere in South Africa. This fragments the economy and limits the benefits of trade and domestic mobility. It is also an expression of an ongoing attack on democratic values.
Just as we debate the ethics of vigilante violence – of which these attacks on truck drivers are a particular offshoot – we must ask who we want rationing the rights to jobs, business and housing. Closing the borders to Zimbabwe and Mozambique may look to some like the country asserting its independence, but such reactionary moves will not sustain or promote South African jobs or business.
For now, that is beside the point. The impulse to exclude threatens to draw boundaries and divides at every level across the country. South Africans rightfully worry about the lingering effects of racism and the economic marginalisation of previously oppressed groups. Yet in ensuring that everyone has equal access to the country’s scarce but adequate resources, whose interests are served by South Africans violently excluding each other?
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Novel technology platform for custom designing bacteriophages
Bacteriophages, known informally as phages, are viruses that can attack and kill specific bacteria. They occur everywhere in the natural world. Precisely because they are matched to just one specific type of bacteria, researchers and medics hope that phages can be engineered to combat certain bacterial infections. For example, the food industry is already using these phages to destroy pathogens in food products by natural methods.
However, genetically engineering phages in order to customize them for specific applications continues to be a very challenging and time-consuming process. It is particularly difficult to modify phages to combat Gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus. Incorporating a synthetic phage genome into Gram-positive bacteria has so far been very problematic, as their cell walls are so thick.
Custom designing phages
A new era may now be dawning in the use of bacteriophages, however, as a team of researchers led by Martin Loessner, Professor of Food Microbiology at ETH Zurich, has just presented a novel technology platform in a paper published in the journal PNAS. This enables scientists to genetically modify phage genomes systematically, provide them with additional functionality, and finally reactivate them in a bacterial "surrogate" - a cell-wall deficient Listeria cell, or L-form.
The new phage workbench allows such viruses to be created very quickly and the "toolbox" is extremely modular: it allows the scientists to create almost any bacteriophages for different purposes, with a great variety of functions.
"Previously it was almost impossible to modify the genome of a bacteriophage," Loessner says. On top of that, the methods were very inefficient. For example, a gene was only integrated into an existing genome in a tiny fraction of the phages. Isolating the modified phage was therefore often like searching for a needle in a haystack.
"In the past we had to screen millions of phages and select those with the desired characteristics. Now we are able to create these viruses from scratch, test them within a reasonable period and if necessary modify them again," Loessner stresses.
Planning phages on the computer
Samuel Kilcher, a specialist in molecular virology, has played a key role in the breakthrough: he used synthetic biology methods to plan the genome of a bacteriophage on the drawing board and assemble it in a test tube from DNA fragments. At the same time new, additional functions were incorporated in the phage genome, such as enzymes to dissolve the bacterial cell wall. In addition, Kilcher is able to remove genes that give a phage unwanted properties, such as the integration into the bacterial genome or the production of cytotoxins.
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In order to reactivate a phage from synthetic DNA, the genome was introduced into spherical, cell wall-deficient but viable forms of the Listeria bacterium (L-form Listeria). Based on the genetic blueprint, these bacterial cells then produce all the components of the desired phage and ensure that the virus particles are assembled correctly.
The researchers also discovered that spherical Listeria cells are not only capable of creating their own specific phages, but also those able to attack other bacteria. Usually, a host only generates its own specific viruses. L-form Listeria are therefore suitable as a virtually universal incubator for bacteriophages.
If the Listeria cells are then brought to the point where they rupture (lysis), the bacteriophages are released and can be isolated and multiplied for use in therapy or diagnostics.
Only virulent phages are suitable
"A key prerequisite for using effective synthetic bacteriophages is that their genome is unable to integrate into the host's genome," Kilcher emphasizes. If this happens, the virus no longer presents a threat to the bacterium. Using this new method, however, the scientists were able to simply reprogram such integrative phages so that they become interesting again for antibacterial applications.
The two researchers are not particularly worried about potential resistances against the phages. And even if there were any, for example due to a bacterium changing its surface structures to prevent the virus from attaching, the new technology makes it possible to develop a suitable phage against which a bacterium has not yet developed resistance.
The researchers also think the danger of unintended release is very small: because the bacteriophages - both natural and synthetic - are extremely host-specific, they cannot survive for long without their host. This high specificity also prevents the bacteriophages from switching to a new host bacterium. "Adapting to the surface structure of a different host would take an awful long time in nature," Loessner says.
Close to a practical application
With this new technology, Loessner's team has made a giant stride towards applying synthetic bacteriophages for use in therapy, diagnostics or the food industry. The scientists are thus managing to overcome constraints associated with the use of naturally occurring phages. "Our toolbox could help to exploit the potential of phages," Loessner says. The researchers have applied for a patent for their technology. Now they hope to find licensees to produce the phages for therapy and diagnostics.
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Fumbles by Eli Manning, Larry Donnell sink Giants
New York Giants tight end Larry Donnell (84) fumbles the ball as he is hit by Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Dwayne Gratz (27) during the second half of an NFL game in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014. Jacksonville recovered the fumble and Aaron Colvin returned it for a 41-yard touchdown. Credit: AP / Phelan M. Ebenhack
By BOB GLAUBER bob.glauber@newsday.com @BobGlauber Updated November 30, 2014 10:21 PM
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Larry Donnell was at a loss to explain how he could have done anything differently, lest he risk breaking his neck.
Eli Manning knew exactly what he did wrong, but also was powerless to change the result.
Two massive turnovers later, the Giants found themselves having to explain a seven-game losing streak, with the latest defeat at the hands of a Jaguars team that came into the game at 1-10 and going with a rookie quarterback.
After the Giants built what seemed a commanding 21-point second-quarter lead, they frittered it away in the second half and wound up losing, 25-24, at EverBank Stadium on Sunday.
Manning started off the turnover nightmare on the Giants' first possession of the second half. Dropping back from the Giants' 15, he came under a heavy rush, was sacked by outside linebacker Geno Hayes and fumbled the ball backward. Giants running back Rashad Jennings got a hand on the ball, but it was recovered by linebacker J.T. Thomas in the end zone for a Jaguars touchdown that cut the Giants' lead to 21-10 with 11:13 to play in the third quarter.
"I just had to do a better job," Manning said. "I kind of saw it coming. I thought I had [the ball] in two hands and protected. Just got it knocked out. Got to do a better job holding it down. Can't afford to turn the ball over. Can't afford to put our team in a bad situation."
The situation got worse on Donnell's fumble -- much worse. After the Jaguars pulled to within 21-16 on a late third-quarter touchdown pass from Blake Bortles to Marqise Lee, Manning hit Donnell with a short pass down the right sideline on third-and-15 from the Giants' 43.
Donnell caught the ball, but after being tackled low, he was upended and fell headfirst. Bracing himself, he put one hand on the ground, and the ball came loose. Jaguars cornerback Aaron Colvin recovered the fumble and returned it 41 yards to put Jacksonville ahead 22-21.
"I can't do that," Donnell said. "It's back to the drawing board. When you're upside down and your neck hits the ground . . . It's something I've got to eliminate because it's critical to this team."
Donnell, who also lost a fumble in an earlier loss to the Cowboys in Dallas, said he's not sure how he can improve his technique on this particular play.
"I guess I have to have two guys hitting my legs while I fall on my neck," he said. "I just have to hold on to the football. I don't want to put ourselves in a situation where it hurts us right there. It's a terrible feeling and a terrible situation to be in. Those guys both went for my legs. I'm upside down trying to protect myself and trying to protect the ball at the same time. I've got to hold on to the ball, no matter what."
That wasn't even the Giants' final fumble. They had one last desperation chance at the end, but Manning was sacked and fumbled at the Giants' 9 with 20 seconds to play.
By BOB GLAUBER bob.glauber@newsday.com @BobGlauber
Bob Glauber has covered the NFL since 1985 and has been Newsday's NFL columnist since 1992. Twice selected as the New York State Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association, he is president of the Pro Football Writers of America and author of "Guts and Genius."
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Bitdefender Signs Enterprise Channel Deal with e92plus
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The agreement supports growth and increased presence of Bitdefender Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE), the virtualisation anti-malware technology, in the UK channel. The new relationship between Bitdefender and e92plus follows the availability of SVE on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace and expansion of the Bitdefender Partner Advantage Network earlier in 2012.
Established value-added IT security distributor to support Bitdefender reseller channel strategy for virtualised security platform in the UK
Bitdefender, the award-winning provider of innovative security solutions, has signed a distribution deal with e92plus, a leading UK value-added distributor. The agreement supports growth and increased presence of Bitdefender Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE), the virtualisation anti-malware technology, in the UK channel. The new relationship between Bitdefender and e92plus follows the availability of SVE on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace and expansion of the Bitdefender Partner Advantage Network earlier in 2012.
Bitdefender Security for Virtualized Environments provides e92plus with a new and exciting proposition for resellers. The value-added distributor will be the Authoried Training Centre for Bitdefender’s enterprise solutions, offering resellers opportunities to be educated on SVE and its benefits over traditional endpoint solutions, together with additional technical and marketing services for lead generation. The partnership between Bitdefender and e92plus is based on the distributor’s track record of bringing world-class security vendors to the channel.
Mukesh Gupta, Managing Director at e92plus said,“e92plus is delighted to be working with Bitdefender, and bringing their innovative technology to our reseller partners. We have great experience in bringing unique technology to the market, and in particular Bitdefender virtualisation security offers VARs a great proposition to take to their customers. It also complements both our security and virtualisation solutions, and will help build a more complete, profitable package for resellers to take to market.”
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Nock Out Lighted Nock Reviews
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Since they first came out, lighted nocks have supplied hunters with something that has truly revolutionized bow hunting. This is the ability to accurately see where a game animal has been hit. Whether from memory, or reviewing footage when filming a hunt, lighted nocks allow a bow hunter to make a well-informed decision about the recovery of a game animal. The concern now is which lighted nocks are the most efficient, which the brightest lighted nocks are, and simply which lighted nocks are the best on the market.
Best Lighted Nocks on the Market?
While some companies focus on one particular feature such as brightness, dependability, battery life, or function, the true best lighted nock on the market beats out the competition in all aspects. Don’t take it from us that Nock Out® lighted nocks excel in all categories, but from the bow hunters that have experienced it first-hand!
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Nock Out® Lighted Nocks are the frustration free lighted nock. If you have experience with any other brand of lighted nock you know the niche wide frustration that seems commonplace. From delayed activation and poor fits, to the struggle of turning the nock on and off. So why is Nock Out® different?
Practice Mode: A simple 1/4 turn of the silver activation collar deactivates the LED. Now, you can decide if you want the LED to light or not.
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What is the Best Lighted Nock Color?
The hunting industry is ever changing, moving, and growing. Lighted nocks are becoming more and more of a practical tool for the modern archer who is moving and growing with the industry. While the industry might be taking the first steps, it is up to the hunters to carry the innovations and products into the field. Once this occurs, improvements, competition, and reviews are inevitable. Centered on this critical pivot, the discussion between hunters of the “best” product starts to occur. The same can be said for lighted nocks. While this blog won’t dive into the discussion between lighted nock brands specifically, it will deliver even better insight for hunters…what is the best lighted nock color to use?
Lighted Nocks in the Outdoor Industry
New products are constantly being designed, tested and adapted that are intended to help sporting folks afield. Two of the critical key driving factors for the archery industry are accuracy and shot placement. Accuracy in the field and accuracy in practice are paramount to ethical hunting practices and the hunter’s confidence in shot placement. The responsibility of accuracy and practice is no more imperative than in the pursuit of archery hunting. This pursuit has led to a multitude of archery improvements that seem like a world away from a primitive stick and string propelling a wooden dowel through the air. Compound bows, fiber optic sights, carbon arrows, mechanical broadheads, the list goes on and on when you begin to list improvements to accuracy for the archery hunter. One development designed to improve accuracy, shot placement, game recovery, and improve the value of time invested in practice and hunting is the lighted nock.
Lighted nocks became a possibility with the advent of translucent plastics used in the design and construction of arrow nocks. Those new nock designs coupled with the availability of smaller and smaller LEDs and batteries made lighted nocks a reality. By adding a lighted nock to an arrow shaft, tracking the flight of an arrow moving at speeds of three hundred feet per second or more becomes much easier. The use of lighted nock during practice provides immediate feedback on your shot and arrow flight. Identifying issues in form during practice such as hand torque become much easier to identify with the use of a lighted nock. The task of identifying arrows out of tune that fly contrary to rest of the quiver is much less time consuming with the use of a lighted nock and the ability to identify each arrow’s flight path before the target. The point of impact on target is also much easier to establish from the shooting position when using lighted nocks both in practice and hunting scenarios.
The use of lighted nocks in hunting scenarios is becoming more and more commonplace. The ability to track arrow flight to the point of impact in low light conditions can be a valuable tool in the field. Considering a shot taken in the field and examining the placement on the game animal is critical when determining the recovery approach. Arrow recovery after the shot, whether a complete or partial pass through, is often critical in the follow-up and tracking of downed game. The use of a lighted nock can make finding that arrow, and the associated blood trail much easier.
When considering lighted nock selection, don’t discount the choice of color as a key decision point for the application you intend to use the nock and arrow setup for when hunting. While camouflage and concealability are critical components of bow hunting, hunters should consider the visibility of an arrow before, during, and after the shot for recovery. The key advantage to a lighted nock is its visibility and obvious contrast to the surroundings. Finding the exact location the arrow impacted the game animal and finding the blood trail can sometimes be frustrating and difficult to identify after the shot. Angles, perspective, entry’s and exits, and even shadows change when you climb down from a tree stand or exit a blind to examine an area after a shot is taken. The ability to locate a glowing lighted nock shining in contrast to its surroundings is a great start to tracking that game animal.
Color choice in a lighted nock can mean the difference between quickly finding an arrow after the shot or scanning the ground in a seemingly endless search for your arrow.
SHOP LIGHTED NOCK COLORS
Green Lighted Nocks
Choosing a neon green lighted nock for a spring archery turkey hunt, for instance, may not be the best choice. A bright green lighted nock attached to a camouflaged arrow may be next to impossible to find in a green feed or fescue field where turkeys are feeding and strutting. That same green lighted nock on the end of an arrow on a western antelope hunt on the high plains, or in the orange and red November woods of the Midwest will stand out like a sore thumb against the backgrounds. Green lighted nocks serve as the best color choice in nearly every scenario that green does not exist in the landscape, at least by majority compared to other colors in the landscape.
Red Lighted Nocks
A green lighted nock color literally serves as the best choice for nearly every season except the spring green up. The color in its place during this time of year by far, also one of the most popular colors besides green, is red. The green and lush habitat extends from turkey season well into the summer and early autumn, when early season whitetail hunters or elk hunters start hitting the woods. In these scenarios the best color nock for the hunter would be a color that stands out against the different shades of neon green and in some cases yellow grasses/leaves in early autumn. Red nocks in spring and summer are the best choice. This means that a red nock should be used for spring turkey hunting, early season whitetail hunting, and September elk hunting.
Yellow Lighted Nocks
Consider how many times a hunter has mistaken an orange or red fall leaf or turning grass in the fall whitetail woods for a spot of blood after a shot. Many hunts depending on season and ecosystem lend themselves to distinct colors and hues. A neon yellow lighted nock on a hunting arrow shot during a fall hunt is not likely to show up against the autumn browns, reds and oranges of October and November. Again green nocks are the best in this scenario, leaving yellow nocks with not a lot of great options as far as the hunting application. A lighted nock should glow and act as a beacon against the darkness on an early morning or late evening hunt regardless of the color.
So Which Is the Best Lighted Nock Color?
Color, light, and shadow are all critical in the pursuit of game. Camouflage and stand or blind placement should always be cognizant of the surrounding colors, hues and shadows of the hunting area. Most times we are concerned with blending into the natural environment and to go unnoticed. In the case of a lighted nock, this tool is best served to contrast with the surrounding environment. Hunters work tirelessly to better their odds in the field and to respect the animals they pursue with ethical practices. Improving confidence in shot placement and the odds of arrow recovery with the use of a lighted nock can go a long way to enhance an archery hunt.
As you can conclude, each season, hunt, and environment have considerations for the best lighted nock color. One color does not, unfortunately, cover the spectrum of hunts. Rather two different colors, red and green, perform together as the best colors for lighted nocks.
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This WESH 2 news broadcast from 1986 is an amazing time capsule from Orlando's past
Posted By Dave Plotkin on Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:30 PM
Screenshot of WESH via Televisionarchives/YouTube
Will the president of the United States fire any of his cabinet members over an illegal foreign-arms deal? Will a Florida kidnapping fugitive wanted for robbery and a murder in North Carolina ever be located?
These and other breaking news stories were resolved more than 33 years ago, but you can relive the excitement in this newly released video of WESH Channel 2's nightly broadcast from Nov. 11, 1986.
The broadcast was anchored by John McIntyre and Jackie Brockington, who later went on to anchor the Channel 13 news from 2001 to 2017. It's an incredible time-machine view into the past – and a weird reflection on our present.
Included in the coverage is a man arrested with gasoline bombs in Brisbane, Australia, where he intended to kill Pope John Paul II for having "too much money," and a local plan to clean up Orange Blossom Trail, which included a proposal to create a special taxing district. If approved, the plan would "clean up the trail" by charging area businesses $10 for every foot abutting the roadway.
What's remarkable about the footage is just how many of the stories mirror the current events of today. Yes, O.B.T. still has a long way to go toward serving nearby vulnerable populations, including sex workers, but other social issues stand out, as well.
Working parents were calling in sick to care for their sick children, something the city of Orlando said then cost "a quarter of a million dollars a year in sick pay." Though "several hundred daycare centers" were expected to open in the Orlando area in the coming months, the city was asking for more area businesses to provide child care for their workers.
Our favorite might be medical reporter Sam Dick, who demonstrated ways to save a choking child. For the story, he spoke to Dr. Henry Heimlich, who said "the Heimlich Maneuver may not work the first time, but it's 100-percent effective by the third try." Heimlich died in 2016, but his advice is still saving lives.
Sam Dick demonstrates how not to save a choking baby
The Orlando International Airport was about to open 3,000 new parking spaces the next day, with overnight rates set at $3 per day until a January increase. Meanwhile, archeologists in Titusville found an ancient cemetery with more than 100 bodies at the bottom of a pond, in a new development called Windover Farms.
The commercials are also included in the broadcast. Ads for Kemper Mutual Funds and Gooding's grocery store are like ghost voices from long-defunct companies gone by, but many of the advertisers are still around.
The Central Florida International Auto Show was featuring "KITT," the car from Knight Rider, which had just aired its final episode in April of that year. Volvo advertised their new "On Call" service, where drivers could reach a live operator, 24-7, from their car. Pizza Hut was still slingin' their pan pizza, and Walgreens was advertising Christmas gifts like Whitman's Sampler. In a commercial for Fashion Square Mall, a child claimed it's the best place to see Santa, calling it "the first place to look for Santa's smile."
There's too much to describe here, but it is totally worth a watch today, especially if the actual local news has been bumming you out. It's comforting to know that, while the news – and fashion – are constantly changing, how we see it on the evening news has strangely endured.
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Keystone XL Looks for More Customers
TransCanada is soliciting additional commitments to ship oil on revived Keystone XL project.
TransCanada Corporation has said it still expects commercial support for its controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, countering speculation that it was having trouble finding customers for the long-delayed line.
Keystone XL, rejected by the Obama administration and then revived by President Donald Trump, would boost TransCanada’s dividend growth, the company said in a statement Friday. According to Bloomberg, reports in recent weeks said that the company was having trouble signing up customers for the pipeline, conceived to help move crude from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries on the US Gulf Coast.
TransCanada said earlier this year that it was working to sign new shippers following years of delays. The company said on Thursday that it’s soliciting additional commitments to ship oil on Keystone XL.
“We’ve had good support from our legacy shippers, which gives us a good base to launch this open season,” Paul Miller, TransCanada’s president of liquids pipelines, told Bloomberg.
The open season closes on September 28, with results in late November, Miller said. The company should also receive its regulatory decisions from Nebraska around that time. If TransCanada decides to move ahead on Keystone XL, it would need six to nine months to prepare for construction and about two years to build it.
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Home By Gregory Pappas Understanding “Agourolado” and High Phenolic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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Understanding “Agourolado” and High Phenolic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
by Gregory Pappas November 19, 2020
written by Gregory Pappas November 19, 2020
Ever since launching my own brand of high-phenolic extra virgin olive oil, I wanted to put together some frequently asked questions in an effort to better educate the consumer who might be considering purchasing some. Because this is a unique product and one that isn’t frequently available on the market, I think it’s important people understand what they’re buying, especially since many might confuse this particular kind of oil for traditional, extra virgin olive oil.
What is “Agourolado”?
Agourolado is a unique kind of extra virgin olive oil, known by its colloquial name “agoureleo” in Greece. In simple terms, it’s oil from unripe olives. It’s also known as “early harvest” olive oil since olives are not only harvested early in the season, but also earlier than their ripened state. In Crete (because Cretans always have a different word for things), this kind of oil is known as “agourolado.” Both “agoureleo” and “agourolado” come from the Greek word “agouro” or unripe.
The Ancient Greeks also produced early harvest olive oil and called it “omphakion.” They not only used it as an exquisite food product, but also as medicine. Hippocrates documented 60 different ailments that could be treated with oil from unripe olives– but more on that later. I’ve actually chosen the name “Agourolado” for my very first small batch of this unique oil as a tribute to the people of Crete, including my parents, both of whom were from this island.
What’s so special about this kind of olive oil?
Agoureleo is special because of its unique taste, but more so because of its nutritional value that has to do with the high concentration of micronutrients called polyphenols. Put in simple terms, these naturally-occurring compounds make this kind of olive oil a superfood. Science has revealed to us today what the ancient Greeks knew thousands of years ago. Hippocrates used high phenolic olive oil to treat more than 60 ailments.
Modern medical research has directly linked polyphenol intake (and specifically two of them named oleocanthal and oleacein) to better digestion and gut health, helping with weight management difficulties, mitigating diabetes, preventing neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol– even cancer prevention.
Here are several study links you might find interesting:
Daily consumption of a high phenolic extra-virgin olive oil reduces oxidative DNA damage in postmenopausal women.
Efficacy of Early Harvest Olive Oil in Cognition of Primary (PPMS) or Secondary (SPMS) Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Lesson from Nutrigenomics.
A randomized double-blind clinical trial of Greek high phenolic early harvest extra virgin olive oil of Chalkidiki variety in mild Cognitive Impairment: The MICOIL study.
Antioxidants in Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Table Olives: Connections between Agriculture and Processing for Health Choices.
Consuming High-Polyphenol EVOO Reduces Blood Pressure.
Key Ingredient in Olive Oil Destroys Cancer Cells.
So this is like medicine?
Absolutely not. And you shouldn’t treat it like medicine. Studies should only offer guidance. But we do know as a scientific fact that polyphenols act as antioxidants, meaning they can neutralize harmful free radicals that would otherwise damage your cells and increase your risk of conditions like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Polyphenols are also thought to reduce inflammation, which is thought to be the root cause of many chronic illnesses.
What makes an olive oil “certified high phenolic”?
The European Union has designated a specific minimum target amount of 250 mg/kg of oleocanthal and oleacein in olive oil in order for it to be labeled as “high phenolic.” My Agourolado was tested in a lab in Crete, with levels upwards of 5 times the minimum, making it extremely packed with these super nutrients.
Does Agourolado taste different from extra virgin olive oil?
Absolutely. This isn’t EVOO that you buy at the grocery store. In fact, this kind of olive oil rarely makes it to market because of the cost involved to produce it and the unique. Agourolado is VERY peppery, primarily because of the high concentration of polyphenols, which are prevalent in unripe olives. It actually burns the back of your throat.
So, since it tastes so peppery, what should I do with it?
For starters, you can drink one or two tablespoons a day, straight. I have been doing it for a few years now. Dr. Steven Gundry, the well-known doctor who has millions of followers (and incidentally sells his own high-phenolic olive oil at double the price of mine) also suggests two tablespoons a day. (*Note: Dr. Gundry sells his for $49.95 for 250ml. My Agourolado is priced at $44.95 for TWICE the amount and mine is in a stainless steel bottle, which is recommended to protect the polyphenols. Gundry sells his oil in a glass bottle.)
“I like to just drink a “shot” of it each day, and I suggest you do the same,” Dr. Gundry says on his website, adding about the taste that “the peppery flavor isn’t for everyone, so I’ve put together a few other ways for you to enjoy this powerful, flavorful olive oil — and all it’s fantastic health benefits, too.” Gundry goes on to list numerous ways to enjoy this kind of olive oil, including:
Use it as a “finishing oil” on almost any foods: You know how even the simplest foods feel a little more “special” at a restaurant? That’s because they’re likely drizzled with a little bit of oil — it actually enhances the flavors in food. Accent sautéed greens, scrambled eggs, even that piece of grilled salmon— just make sure to drizzle it on your food after cooking.
Make a salad dressing with it: One great way to “tone down” the oil’s peppery flavor is to counter-balance it with high-quality balsamic vinegar.
Blend it into a smoothie: It sounds funny, but it’s great blended into a smoothie — especially a chocolate flavored smoothie. Believe it or not, chocolate and olive oil is a classic combination.
Use it in pesto: This classic Italian sauce is great tossed with pasta or used as a sauce on grilled meats, veggies, or even on top of a salad. To make it, combine a half cup of basil or parsley, ¼ cup of toasted pine nuts, ¼ cup of grated parmesan, a garlic clove, and about a ¼ cup of Olive Oil in the food processor or blender. Then, store it in the fridge or freezer.
Why is “Agourolodo” more expensive than traditional olive oil?
Agourolado is more expensive because it takes twice the weight in olives to produce it. For a single 500ml bottle, it takes approximately 6 kilograms of olives (about 8,000 olives!). It takes half this amount, or about 3 kilograms, to make the same amount of traditional olive oil. Good, high phenolic olive oil can cost anywhere from $50 to even up to $100 for a 500ml bottle. In some cases, smaller bottles can cost anywhere between $50-$90, including the world-famous Dr. Steven Gundry, who is selling a Moroccan version for $49.95 for a 250ml bottle which equates to almost $100 for a half liter!
Unripe olives produce much less– but much more nutritious– juice.
I have priced my Agourolado, available for purchase anywhere in the continental United States at $44.95 per 500ml bottle. Agourolado is available exclusively from Olive Grove Market here.
Is “Agourolado” a single source olive oil and why is that important?
Yes. Our batch comes from a single farm, owned and operated by Giorgos Poulakas in Varipetro, in the region of Hania on Crete. Single source olive oils are produced from olives located in one single farm or traceable source of origin. This means you don’t have a mix of olives from various locations and qualities. Single source extra virgin olive oils cut out middlemen who may reduce the pureness by adulterating it or mixing oils of lesser quality with fresher oil.
Why a stainless steel bottle?
Stainless steel scientifically proven to be the best material to preserve the organoleptic qualities of olive oil and slow down the natural dissipation of the phenolic compounds. Our bottle is modern, sophisticated, refined and minimal– but more importantly, we chose it because it’s made of the very best material needed to preserve and protect the very finest olive oil available on the market.
The bottles are made in Italy with a single die-cut stainless steel that’s the same material used to make the tanks that store olive oil before bottling. Stainless steel is more expensive than tin, glass and other typical bottling products but it protects the olive oil from light and oxidation and preserves the oil’s nutritional properties better than any other material. We also choose stainless steel also because it is 100% recyclable, and it can be reused endlessly without losing any of its original properties. The life cycle of stainless steel is potentially endless, it is a permanent resource, essential for the development of a sustainable world.
Feel free to email me directly here if you have any questions about my Agourolado. You can click here to order your own supply (hurry fast as I’ve only produced 500 bottles).
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CurrentC, an Apple Pay Competitor, Is Delayed
May 17, 2016, 9:22 AM by Eric M. Zeman @zeman_e
updated May 17, 2016, 2:23 PM
Updated: Typo
MCX, the consortium of retailers including Walmart and Target, has postponed the national rollout of its mobile payment service, called CurrentC. MCX tested CurrentC in several markets and has decided to step back from the roll out for the time being. "Utilizing unique feedback from the marketplace and our Columbus pilot, MCX has made a decision to concentrate more heavily in the immediate term on other aspects of our business including working with financial institutions, like our partnership with Chase, to enable and scale mobile payment solutions," said CEO Brian Mooney in a statement provided to TechCrunch. The company plans to lay off some staff in the meantime. Walmart, Target, and other retailers have shied away from Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay as they worked to develop CurrentC. It's not clear if any of these retailers will adopt competing mobile payment services to fill the gap.
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Google Pay Arrives to Fully Replace Android Pay and Google Wallet
Google today released Google Pay, the revised payment application and service that replaces Android Pay. Google Pay encompasses most features of Google Wallet and Android Pay in a single app, allowing people to use Google Pay to make payments online and via mobile devices.
Target, Taco Bell Finally Accepting NFC Payments
Apple Pay and Google Pay are closer to being accepted everywhere, with the announcement that Target, Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, Hy-Vee and Speedway are now rolling out support for NFC payments. Target was one of the last big holdouts in supporting the technology, which lets you simply tap your NFC-equipped phone or smartwatch on the card terminal to pay.
Google Pay Gains New Payment and Money Management Tools, Digital Bank Account
Google today launched a major revamp of its Google Pay app with a new interface and several major new features. Instead of a stack of cards and list of transactions, the new interface centers around the people and businesses you exchange money with, with a conversation-style interface for each person, group, and business.
Apple to Rebuild Maps from Scratch Using Its Own Data
Apple hopes to improve its Apple Maps app and service by rebuilding them from the ground up with all new data. Apple launched Maps six years ago relying on data from third-party providers such as TomTom.
Google's Shopping Actions Make It Easy to Buy Stuff from Search Results
Google today announced its Shopping Actions program, a way for retailers to surface their products in search results and ensure those products are easy to purchase. Google is bringing Shopping Actions to Google Assistant and Google Search, which will include a universal shopping cart on mobile devices, desktops, and Google Home products.
netboy
Samsung Pay works at Target
i have used it and it works !
Is that by swipe to simulate a magnetic strip on a credit card, or tap and pay?
The last time we used a non-Target credit card at Target, we got hit with a bogus $750 online charge.
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2015 Renault Kwid first drive review (India)
Bertrand D'souza Updated: September 24, 2015, 01:35 PM IST
The most competitive end of the automotive market happens to be the smallest car segment also called the A-segment. This is the compact hatchback segment dominated by the Maruti Alto with other fringe players like Hyundai Eon and the Datsun Go clutching at the straws. Breaking through this segment isn't easy, volumes may be high but value low and at the end of the day what customers are looking for more than anything is overall ownership value. That is a terribly hard thing to come by where pricing at all stages is highly critical and none barring Maruti have managed to surpass expectations.
Renault India are the latest to step into this segment and they have a unique proposition to offer. Their car for the customers in this sub Rs 4 lakh segment isn't a hatchback, it's a compact car aping to be an SUV. That ticks one box on the unique selling proposition list. According to Gerard Detourbet, the father of the Logan, the Duster, the Lodgy and now the Kwid, the global hatchback segment (irrespective of price bracket or size) is seeing a sharp decline and it is being replaced by SUVs. He's right you know, the Alto for instance is no longer the highest selling car in India, it's the Dzire and though that car isn't an SUV, you'd know by now just how popular SUVs are getting to be in India. So full marks to Renault for toeing an absolutely new line.
So what is the Kwid and what does it have to offer? Read on.
The Kwid is part of Renault's CMF strategy, that is Compact Module Family. It's very simply put, several bits and pieces that can be stitched together in myriad ways to build various cars of differing sizes catering to different segments. This brings about a huge cost saving to the manufacturer as well as the consumer, undoubtedly the need of the hour. The Kwid comes under the CMF-A classification, the A representing the sub compact segment. Likewise higher segment of cars will be classified as CMF-B, CMF-C and so on, you get the drift. Internally the Kwid is code named the BBA where the first B denotes the type of body, the second B the platform and the A that its the first car on this type of platform. Interesting? Then you should continue reading.
This is a schematic of the Renault Common Module Family (CMF) from which the new Kwid emerges. The Kwid is a CMF-A platform vehicle, where the A suffixed represents "Affordable"
The Kwid was developed with inputs from France, Japan, Korea and predominantly India. Internal equipment was developed and tested by Renault's Korean arm, not surprising! Endurance and durability was tested in France. Japan contributed to the electronics. India however brought a bulk of the development since the car was to be first launched globally here. The design came from Renault's studios in Chennai and Mumbai, whereas the body and chassis were tested here in India. Sourcing of components and overall assembly and final testing was also all conducted in India. So in a sense this truly is a global car.
Strangely enough the Kwid came under a lot of opposition internally, simply because this car did not feel Renault enough. Several questions were raised but slowly and surely Gerard managed to answer all of these. Today the Kwid stands tall and proud, 50 percent of the Kwid's journey is done, a car stands ready to roll out of the plant onto the road. The other 50 percent is now in the hands of the customer. As for us, here's what we discovered.
The Renault Kwid has a stance which is second to none in this segment. However don't for even a second be fooled by all the superlatives indicating its SUV-like persona. This is quite simply a large hatchback sitting on tall suspension, very similar to the the pseudo crossovers of the Hyundai, Volkswagen and Toyota ilk. At it's tallest the Kwid barely reached my shoulders and I stand 5'9" tall.
There are however several attention grabbing elements, headlamps are big bold units and are coupled to the indicators which are housed in the same casing. The large Renault lozenge sits in the centre of the bonnet and has the two-piece chain link grille as its background. The bonnet has a power bulge to it. The sides also look sculpted with muscular haunches and protective plastic cladding on the wheel arches giving it an aggressive personality.
It's 3679mm long, 1579mm wide and 1478mm tall. It's has a 2422mm long wheelbase and 180mm of ground clearance. The wide clearances in the wheel wells thanks to the small 13" wheels and tyres make it looker taller but that's a clever optical illusion.
So it's taller, longer, wider and sits higher than the competition, yet manages to snugly fit in the sub compact segment. It's also got several chunky black plastic bits that further strengthen its visual appeal. Thus far it's the cleverest and handsomest application of plastic cladding in this segment or any other. It's also the most unique looking hatchback to date in a segment that really hasn't seen much design innovation emerge.
The rear profile is the only one that appears very hatchback like. Sculpted and muscular, it too is a refreshing design in an otherwise dull segment.
The dashboard is my favourite design area; simplistic, non cluttered and therefore optimising space over all else. And space is today one of the ultimate luxuries. The dash is dominated by the chrome bezeled centre console which has the same touchscreen unit used in the Duster and Lodgy. The touchscreen provides the user to control media functions, telephony through Bluetooth and navigation. It's surrounded on the top and bottom by the air-con vents and dials respectively. The instrument binnacle is of a digital type and displays everything needed except for a tachometer which is entirely absent. At the left of the centre console is a three stack storage area or three glove boxes stacked one above the other. This also means the Kwid will not get a passenger side airbag though a driver airbag is offered as an option.
Space inside a sub compact is usually at a premium but slimmer seats and a more upright H-point provide enough room. Three grown-ups will find space on that rear bench a bit of a squeeze and certainly not encouraging for long drives. Ideally use it as a 2+2 seater.
Quality overall is reasonable for the class. Don't go expecting it to take you aback and you won't be disappointed. Fit and finish are good but I'm not sure about consistency. The example at the global unveil had a few faults, the glovebox for instance would not shut cleanly. And now at the drive experience, the doors would not shut cleanly though when they did, it did not feel rickety like in some of the competition. Quality of plastics are also what you'd expect from I presume a sub Rs 3 lakh car, good but definitely not European. I, in fact suspect European or Brazilian models will have a touch better plastic quality.
Renault has built an all-new engine for the Kwid from ground up. This 799cc motor from the BR family of Renault engines makes 54PS@5,678rpm and 74Nm@4,386rpm. This petrol engine has a dual overhead cam architecture with a 4-valve per cylinder valve train. It is mated to a 5-speed manual transmission, also all new. Plastic has been used extensively in the engine, of course not in the critical components. However components like the oil sump and intake manifold are plastic parts which help in reducing weight. Renault hasn't disclosed acceleration performance figures but fuel efficiency is claimed to be a class leading 25.17kmpl.
Critical question though is whether the engine will feel adequate as a workhorse. Inner city running will be a breeze, the transmission ratios are nicely matched to the torque curve of this engine and it revs easily and never felt stretched to the limit. Thanks to the overall kerb weight, which stands at just 660 kilos, the engine never really breaks into a sweat. However load it up and I suspect this engine is going to work very hard indeed. A full test will reveal whether it can handle heavy duty tasks or not. That said a majority of you who use the car largely alone or with just a passenger or two at most, and rarely for a long drive out of town, will find this a perfectly adequate car to drive.
Engine refinement too is quite impressive, there isn't first of all the cold engine rattle that sub litre class engines are prone to when fired up. Second the noise insulation is tightly controlled so you don't really hear the engine clatter inside the cabin as a disturbance once on the move.
Engine responses too are quick and a slick transmission with a strong power band should keep the labours of driving in urban traffic to a bare minimum. The advantage here is that 80 per cent of torque is available from as low as 1,200rpm, so you feel the surge instantly.
In the future Renault will get down an automatic variant as well. They have been studying the AMT (automated manual) and it should come in the near future. Don't however expect a larger more powerful engine, unless the market dynamics demand it. European nations and other countries will get stronger engines, but given the Indian market's penchant for fuel efficiency, the 799cc engine will be par for the course.
The new Renault Kwid weighs in at just 660kg, making it lighter than its competition by a good 60kg as well as the lightest car in the segment. This raises a lot of questions about safety and Renault claims that it meets all required Indian norms. That's a pretty shallow claim considering Indian safety norms are as good as being non-existent or absolutely irrelevant. An airbag can be optioned but only for the driver's side, since the passenger side dashboard area is occupied by the stack of glove boxes. There isn't any ABS available either.
However Gerard Detourbet insists that the crash structure is strong enough to avert most incidents. And thanks to its modular structure, as the norms get more stringent, the Kwid can be improved to meet those requirements.
The suspension uses MacPherson struts at the front with a lower transverse link to reduce body roll. At the rear a twist beam with coil springs serves the Kwid. Ride quality is impressive with a taut character making its presence felt. I'd equate it to a few degrees lesser than the Duster, which is a class leader, but with similar levels of confidence and security. And though we did not get up to much speed on the inroads of Goa, I don't doubt the compact engine.
The electric powered steering is surprisingly quite accurate and nicely weighed, in fact I began questioning if it was an electric unit at all. Brakes too felt adequate without any fade creeping in though discs all around, instead of just the ones at the front with drums at the rear, would have been a more secure way to go. Keep in mind there is no ABS and the tyres are skinny 155/80 R13s low rolling resistance types so wheel locking up in hard braking conditions are a high and harsh probability.
Renault has done an impressive job with the Kwid no doubt. However don't swallow all the drivel that's bound to be marketed. Try it out for yourself and I'm certain you'd be surprised. This hatchback has great potential to provide good value to its owner. It has several areas of strength like its exterior styling, a strong power train, good ride quality, confident and secure dynamics, decent feature set and a host of options that are unmatched in the segment. Will this car, positioned in the sub compact segment, work out to be a healthy business model for Renault? Only time will tell. I'd place a bet on it, albeit a small one!
Images by Suresh Narayanan
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Criticized For Awkward Visit To Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Students criticize U.S. Secretary of Education for answering few questions and not engaging with many students.
Tragedy Strikes in Florida High School Shooting
Three weeks after a mass shooter took the lives of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited the Parkland, Florida school.
DeVos briefly went to the school and has been met with criticism following her abrupt visit, according to the Huffington Post.
The visit was closed to the media. DeVos reportedly fielded only a handful of questions at a news conference afterward but was not specific as to her thoughts on deterring future gun violence, and abruptly left.
"I just had a very sobering and very inspiring visit to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School," she said at the news conference, according to The Daily Beast. On her Twitter account, she added, "Today’s visit was very sobering but also inspiring. We are committed to continuing our work to find solutions so that no student or parent has to go through what this community has had to endure. We are committed not only to listening, but acting."
Today’s visit was very sobering but also inspiring. We are committed to continuing our work to find solutions so that no student or parent has to go through what this community has had to endure. We are committed not only to listening, but acting. https://t.co/hCLfolZhOY
— Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVosED) March 7, 2018
Students from Parkland and critics took to social media to share their dismay over the visit.
"Do something unexpected: answer our questions. You came to our school just for publicity and avoided our questions for the 90 minutes you were actually here. How about you actually do your job?," tweeted Aly Sheehy.
Do something unexpected: answer our questions. You came to our school just for publicity and avoided our questions for the 90 minutes you were actually here. How about you actually do your job? #neveragain #DoYourJob https://t.co/4Ts0INq0gR
— Aly Sheehy🦅 (@Aly_Sheehy) March 7, 2018
"Betsy Devos came to my school, talked to three people, and pet a dog. This is incase [sic] the press tries to say something else later," added another Twitter user who also described herself as a Parkland student.
Betsy Devos came to my school, talked to three people, and pet a dog. This is incase the press tries to say something else later
— Alanna//#NEVERAGAIN (@AgCI3Cu2) March 7, 2018
Parkland students have been extremely vocal following the mass shooting, calling to the government for tighter gun laws. They are prepping for March For Our Lives, a rally in Washington, D.C. expected to draw crowds as big as 500,000, on March 24. The other protest, National School Walkout, is being organized by the group who shaped the Women's March and is slated for March 14. As the organizer shares, "Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies to take part in a #NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone on March 14, 2018 to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods."
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Senior-led Mustangs visit Tiernan semistate
Jesus Jimenez
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One year after Jonathan May graduated from New Washington High School, the Mustangs won the regional championship in 2001.
Now as head coach, May brings his team to Tiernan Center Saturday to take on Tindley in the IHSAA Class A Semistate championship game at 4 p.m.
New Washington played in the Union County tournament two years ago and made a visit to Tiernan Center.
“We were able to come practice here, I think it was two years ago,” May said. “We played in a tournament up at Union County and we got to come up here, (former Richmond) coach (Joe) Luce’s brother Matt was able to get us in, we practiced one evening, had a walkthrough before our second tournament game there, so our kids have been in here once.”
The stakes will be a bit higher this time as the No. 16-ranked Mustangs (20-9) face the No. 3 Tigers (22-3) and Indiana junior All-Star candidate Eric Hunter.
Class 2A No. 13 Crawford-County faces Heritage Christian in the second game at Richmond.
Cost is $8.
“The year after I graduated from there that they went to semistate,” May said. “We have seven seniors on the team, started the season 8-7, last 14 we are 12-2. We kind of changed the way we defended a bit and that’s really helped us.”
Also helping the Mustangs is their senior leadership and their shooting.
They made nine 3-pointers in Saturday’s 67-62 regional championship victory over Wood Memorial in the Loogootee regional.
Zach Moore leads the Mustangs with 14.7 points per game and averages 6.5 rebounds an 1.3 assists per game.
Stevie Mach leads with 7.3 rebounds per game and is second on the team with 11.1 points per game.
Hunter Lind is right behind with 11 points per game, and Brandon Horton leads with 3.3 assists while averaging 9.3 points per game.
Caleb Ellison (5.8 ppg) and Brandon Gill (1.8 ppg) are also consistent contributors.
New Washington fell to Loogootee 57-45 in its only semistate appearance in 2001.
The Mustangs own five sectional titles, winning their first since 2001 this year.
What: IHSAA boys basketball semistates.
When/where: Saturday at Richmond, Seymour, Huntington North, Lafayette Jeff.
Cost: $8.
AT RICHMOND
Class A: No. 16 New Washington (20-9) vs. No. 3 Tindley (22-5), 4 p.m.
Class 2A: No. 13 Crawford County (21-6) vs. Heritage Christian (17-9), 6 p.m.
AT SEYMOUR
Class 3A: No. 5 Evansville Bosse (20-7) vs. No. 4 Indianapolis Crispus Attucks (23-4), 1 p.m.
Class 4A: No. 8 Castle (24-3) vs. No. 12 Ben Davis (21-5), 3 p.m.
AT LAFAYETTE JEFF
Class A: No. 1 Lafayette Central Catholic (21-6) vs. No. 14 Gary 21st Century (19-8), 1 p.m.
Class 2A: No. 17 Frankton (21-6) vs. Marquette Catholic (19-9), 3 p.m.
AT HUNTINGTON NORTH
Class 3A: No. 13 Fort Wayne Bishop Luers (19-7) vs. No. 6 Twin Lakes (24-3), 4 p.m.
Class 4A: No. 4 Fort Wayne North Side (26-2) vs. Merrillville (21-7), 6 p.m.
Next: State championships are March 25 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse
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ARM accelerates server software ecosystem efforts
ARM will reach out to virtualization software, OS companies to write apps for its processors
Agam Shah (IDG News Service) on 18 May, 2011 20:57
ARM Holdings is seeking the support of software makers for its plan to put its low-power processors in servers, company executives said this week.
Most of the software written for servers is designed to run on x86 chips made by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. ARM and x86 architecture use different instruction sets, so software would need to rewritten to run on servers containing ARM processors.
ARM has set up a dedicated team to chase the server opportunity and will reach out to virtualization software makers and server OS companies to write applications for the company's processors, said Vice President of Software Alliances James McNiven during a webcast of the company's analyst conference.
ARM is a dominant player in the mobile device market with the processor designs it develops and licenses, but it has almost no presence in the server market. As more servers connect to the Internet, ARM sees an opportunity to put processors in servers that execute web-related tasks such as search and social networking transactions.
During analyst day speeches, company officials argued that ARM processors are fast, and more power-efficient for such workloads than conventional server chips such as Intel's Xeon or AMD's Opteron.
"We think server ... is a good opportunity for ARM. We're looking to apply the lessons we've learned over several different ecosystems over many years to that ecosystem in servers," McNiven said.
ARM is relatively new to the server market compared to Intel and AMD, whose processors populate data centers. ARM initially started looking at the server market two years ago, when it set up a team of marketing and research and development people to explore the opportunity.
A year later the company built a prototype web server with Marvell, a chip maker that uses ARM's designs in some of its chips. Last November, Marvell announced a 1.6GHz quad-core server chip based on ARM intellectual property.
"We have been running a small part of the ARM.com website on that [server] for about 18 months now to get a lot more background data and learn about the market," McNiven said.
Last August, ARM decided to test the server market by investing in Smooth-Stone, a startup that designs low-power servers. The company, now renamed Calxeda, has announced a low-power ARM-based server, though the product is not yet available.
But servers are only as useful as the software available for them, so ARM is taking steps to develop the software ecosystem. The company offers coding tools and works with outside developers to write compatible software.
ARM introduced its first processor that could go into servers, the Cortex-A15, in September last year. McNiven said the company is looking to work with virtualization software makers to build applications that take advantage of the processor's virtualization features.
As the addressable market increases, ARM will also work with companies to develop server OSes and to optimize runtimes such as Java to work effectively on ARM processors in server environments.
The company will try to reuse existing code written for mobile devices in the server software ecosystem, McNiven said. That could help reduce software development costs for companies. ARM was able reuse mobile code on its internal server, and software such as browser or networking stacks can be easily ported across device types, McNiven said.
ARM declined to name specific software companies it is working with. But the company has successfully worked with Google, Apple and Microsoft to develop mobile OSes such as Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7. Microsoft's next Windows operating system will also work on ARM processors, and Google has said it is developing Chrome OS for ARM processors.
But ARM faces hardware challenges as it tries to establish a presence in the server market. The Cortex-A15 does not include 64-bit addressing, and has a limited physical memory ceiling. However, ARM CEO Warren East has said the company has access to a large part of the server market as many cloud applications on servers are 32-bit.
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Local culture of Namibia
Namibia is a small country in terms of population, and has the world’s second lowest population density. There are dozens of ethnic groups living here, and about half of them are Ovambo. Close to 90% of the population are Christian, with the remainder practicing indigenous beliefs. Namibia is still home to the San people, also known as the Bushmen, as well as some of the regions oldest nomadic tribes. These groups live their original hunter -gatherer lifestyle. For the most part however, most areas and cultures of Namibia has been westernised by modern influences.
Namibia sits on the southeastern coast of the African continent, beside Zambia, Angola, Botswana and South Africa. South Africa ruled Namibia until 1990, when the latter won its independence. Much of Namibia is covered in desert and arid highlands. There are two deserts here, the Namib and the Kalahari. The central plateau is a mountainous and arid area in the centre of the country, and the Great Escarpment is where the terrain dramatically rises. Namibia is nourished by the Orange River and also has an area of bushvelt, or low scrub bushland, in the northeast.
Shopping guide to Namibia
Along your Namibia travel you’ll find a variety of Western-style malls to makeshift markets along roadsides. Local vendors tend to sell African arts and crafts of varying quality, which include wooden masks, sculptures, traditional pottery and items made from animal hide. Namibian wool is considered high quality, and its made into attractive clothes and rugs by local craftsman. You can also get cheap and stunning diamonds here, just be sure to purchase form a licenced vendor. Please also avoid buying items made from ivory or reptile skins, as these are produced illegally and unethically.
Namibia festival calendar
Africa Day
This event commemorates the end of apartheid in southern African countries, and encourages further peace and cooperation between the various ethnicities that live there.
Bank Windhoek Arts Festival
Held in the capital, this arts festival is a way of promoting Namibia’s budding art scene. Catch all variety of exhibitions and performances, from folk music to theatres and beyond.
Kuste Karneval
It’s a vestige of Namibia’s past under German rule, but today the festivities have a more contemporary feel. After the parades and market stalls, street parties continue into the night.
Food & drink in Namibia
Namibian cuisine is influenced by its indigenous traditions, western colonisers and the arid climate. Livestock are largely free to graze on the savannah and scrublands, so the quality of meat is very good. Braaivleis (barbecues) are both traditional and popular. Outdoor cooking in general is traditional and plays an important part in Namibian culture. The black, cast iron, three-legged pot is an iconic cooking instrument, used to make spicy stews with vegetables and fish or meat. Mopane worm, or catepillars, are fried to a crispy texture and make for a tasty treat.
The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees by David P Crandall
Soul of a Lion by Barbara Bennett
The Elephant's Secret Sense by Caitlin O'Connell
Blood Rose by Margie Orford
Histories of Namibia by Colin Leys and Susan Brown
Namibia travel FAQs
What nationalities need a visa for Namibia?
Most nationalities have visa-free access to Namibia. Please check with your consulate or embassy in case circumstances have changed.
Is tipping in Namibia customary?
Tipping is common practice in Namibia. Add 10% to your bill at restaurants, and leave extra change for hotel staff, porters, drivers and the like.
Can I access the internet in Namibia?
You’ll have internet access in the capital of Windhoek, but service may be unreliable outside of this area.
Will my cell phone/mobile work in Namibia?
You’ll be able to use your phone in Windhoek but not in rural and remote areas. Remember to activate global roaming with your provider if you wish to use your mobile while traveling.
What are the toilets in Namibia like?
Namibia has both western-style toilets and squat toilets. Soap and toilet paper aren’t always provided so you may like to carry some with you.
How much do things cost in Namibia?
An hour in a cyber cafe = 8-10 NAD
A bottle of local beer = 15 NAD
Budget lunch = 36 NAD
Sit-down dinner in a nice restaurant = 100 NAD
Is water in Namibia drinkable?
Drinking tap water is not considered safe in Namibia. For environmental reasons, avoid buying bottled water and bring a bottle or canteen with you. Ask your leader where you can access filters to refill your supply, or carry your own purification tablets with you.
Can I use my credit card in Namibia?
You’ll be able to use your credit card at places like hotels and restaurants in Windhoek, however expect to pay cash when dealing with most local businesses.
Are there ATMs in Namibia?
There are plenty of ATMs in urban centres but they are harder to find outside of these areas.
Do I need travel insurance in Namibia?
Yes. All peregrine passengers are required to purchase travel insurance prior to their trip. Your insurance details will be recorded by your leader on the first day.
What public holidays are recognised in Namibia?
For a current list of public holidays go to:
http://www.worldtravelguide.net/Namibia/public-holidays
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Morning Report: Two Pitchers Talk About the Benefits of the Arizona Fall League
The Arizona Fall League rosters were announced on Tuesday afternoon and the Pittsburgh Pirates are sending a loaded group of players to the league. For most of them this season, the reason they are going is to make up for some lost time. All seven players the Pirates are sending this year spent time on the disabled list. JT Brubaker had the shortest DL stint at two weeks, but once he came back from the early season injury (blister on his right index finger), he had to build his pitch count back up. So he not only lost innings by missing two starts, he lost innings by his role when he returned.
Due to that minor injury, Brubaker won’t be building on last year’s inning total during the regular season, but the AFL gives him a chance to add innings against upper level competition. My guess will be that he is used as a reliever and we will find out during the AFL season that he is using the league to work on one of his off-speed pitches. That seemed to be a popular reason players went last year.
A week or so ago, I asked Sean McCool to talk to a couple of pitchers on Altoona and ask them how the AFL helped them. Alex McRae and Tanner Anderson have both put together solid seasons this year for the Curve and both went to the AFL to work on their changeup. Anderson went in as a starter, which allowed him to add some more innings so he could start for Altoona this season. That was after pitching 88 innings last year, split between West Virginia and Bradenton. McRae put in plenty of innings as a starter last season, so he was used in a relief role.
Brubaker is somewhere between these two players, needing innings, but not a large amount. So he could just get innings as a reliever while working on refining an off-speed pitch. Brandon Waddell should start because he missed a lot of innings this season. Mitch Keller also missed innings, and now with one start left during the regular season, he is still 20.1 innings behind last year, so I expect him to start as well. The fourth pitcher is Taylor Hearn, and while he missed time, he still pitched more than last year. I’d expect him to pitch in relief and work on his new slider that started showing a lot of progress right before he got hurt.
Some people asked yesterday about the reason for the AFL and how it helps players. We talk about pitchers adding innings and working on pitches. Batters get reps against high level pitchers and some of the position players go to learn a new position. What about the AFL from the player perspective?
We asked Alex McRae and Tanner Anderson more specifically, how did the AFL help them develop as a player? Here are the answers they gave Sean last week:
Alex McRae: “I think just having some success there against some of the top players gives you a ton of confidence knowing you can compete with the best players in minor league baseball. That’s the biggest thing. You learn from other people, too. I would say having some success and being able to pitch against those guys gives you a lot of confidence. They’ll tell you one thing that they want you to work one. For me, they wanted to get more reps with the changeup. It’s different for everybody, but that was my one thing they wanted me to work on.”
Tanner Anderson: “It wasn’t so much what I learned over there. It was more of a mindset. You are over there facing pretty solid guys, and it kind of gets you prepared for the future and how the competition will get continuously better. Having success over there, it helps your mindset out and gives you a lot of confidence, especially coming to pitch at the Double-A level. It wasn’t like I learned a ton there pitching-wise, but mentally, it helped confidence.”
** We also have a late coaching addition to the AFL. Bradenton hitting coach Keoni De Renne will be with Glendale this year. He wasn’t on the original coaching assignment list released earlier this month and it appears that the team will go with two hitting coaches. De Renne worked with Cole Tucker, Logan Hill and Kevin Kramer in 2016 and Tucker and Hill this season, so he’s a good fit for the three offensive players the Pirates are sending to Arizona.
PLAYOFF PUSH
The Pirates trail in their division by nine games. They are 9.5 games back for the second wild card spot.
Indianapolis won their division
Altoona clinched a playoff berth. They lead their division by one game with six games remaining. The division winner gets home field advantage.
Bradenton has been eliminated from the playoffs
West Virginia is in third place, 1.5 games out of first. Their season ends September 4th.
Morgantown is in third place, 4.5 games back. Their season ends September 7th.
Bristol has been eliminated from the playoffs.
The GCL Pirates have been eliminated from the playoffs.
The DSL season is over.
PIRATES GAME GRAPH
Source: FanGraphs
Today’s Starter and Notes: The Pittsburgh Pirates lost 4-1 to the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night. They will send Ivan Nova to the mound today for his 27th start. He has posted a 6.00 ERA in eight starts since the All-Star break and a 4.75 ERA in 15 starts on the road this season. Nova has allowed five earned runs over 13.2 innings against the Cubs this season. The Cubs will counter with lefty Jose Quintana, who has a 4.49 ERA in 150.1 innings, with 162 strikeouts and a 1.30 WHIP. He had a 4.49 ERA with the Chicago White Sox this season and it’s at 4.50 in eight starts with the Cubs.
In the minors, JT Brubaker gets the start for Altoona, fresh off of the announcement that he will participate in the Arizona Fall League. He has a 3.06 ERA in nine starts since the All-Star break. Bradenton finally got in a game yesterday after four straight rain outs, but their second game of a doubleheader got rained out. They will try today for a doubleheader, or both games will be canceled. Eduardo Vera starts tonight in game one of a doubleheader for West Virginia. He missed a no-hitter by one out in his last start. Ike Schlabach starts for Morgantown. Bristol has just two games left. The DSL season is over.
MLB: Pittsburgh (63-70) @ Cubs (71-60) 8:05 PM
Probable starter: Ivan Nova (3.97 ERA, 27:109 BB/SO, 165.2 IP)
AAA: Indianapolis (75-61) @ Louisville (54-82) 6:35 PM (season preview)
Probable starter: Drew Hutchison (3.47 ERA, 50:118 BB/SO, 150.1 IP)
AA: Altoona (71-63) @ Richmond (59-75) 6:35 PM (season preview)
Probable starter: JT Brubaker (4.33 ERA, 42:102 BB/SO, 120.2 IP)
High-A: Bradenton (67-59) @ Tampa (80-49) 5:00 PM DH (season preview)
Probable starter: Pedro Vasquez (3.37 ERA, 30:105 BB/SO, 133.2 IP) and Logan Sendelbach (3.22 ERA, 22:57 BB/SO, 81.0 IP)
Low-A: West Virginia (64-65) @ Lakewood (69-64) 5:05 PM DH (season preview)
Probable starter: Eduardo Vera (3.50 ERA, 14:103 BB/SO, 118.1 IP) and TBD
Short-Season A: Morgantown (35-32) vs State College (36-31) 7:05 PM (season preview)
Rookie: Bristol (16-48) vs Burlington (28-38) 7:00 PM
GCL: Pirates (24-32) vs Tigers East (13-43) 12:00 PM
DSL: Pirates (36-34) (season preview)
Here is the second double of the game on Monday night by Kevin Newman.
8/29: Mikell Granberry promoted to Bristol. Jason Delay promoted to Morgantown.
8/29: Brent Gibbs placed on disabled list. Raul Hernandez promoted to West Virginia.
8/29: Daniel Zamora promoted to Altoona.
8/28: Adam Frazier placed on disabled list. Pirates recall Dovydas Neverauskas.
8/28: Johnny Barbato optioned to Indianapolis. Jordan Luplow recalled.
8/28: Hunter Owen assigned to Morgantown.
8/27: Casey Sadler promoted to Indianapolis.
8/27: Barrett Barnes assigned to Indianapolis.
8/26: Francisco Cervelli placed on the disabled list. Elias Diaz recalled from Indianapolis.
8/25: Francisco Cervelli activated from the disabled list. Elias Diaz optioned to Indianapolis.
8/23: Edgar Santana optioned to Indianapolis. Pirates select the contract of Angel Sanchez.
8/23: Cody Dickson promoted to Indianapolis.
8/23: Gage Hinsz placed on disabled list.
8/23: Braeden Ogle placed on the disabled list.
8/23: Arden Pabst placed on disabled list. Henrry Rosario promoted from Bristol to West Virginia.
8/22: Joaquin Benoit and George Kontos placed on disabled list.
8/22: Dovydas Neverauskas optioned to Indianapolis. Steven Brault, Edgar Santana and Johnny Barbato recalled from Indianapolis.
8/22: Hunter Owen and Jason Stoffel assigned to GCL Pirates on rehab.
8/21: Pirates option Jacob Stallings to Indianapolis.
8/21: Brandon Cumpton promoted to Indianapolis. Jacob Brentz activated from Altoona disabled list.
8/21: John Bormann assigned to Bradenton.
THIS DATE IN PIRATES HISTORY
Five former Pittsburgh Pirates players born on this date, plus two trades of note. On this date in 1991, the Pirates helped their playoff run by acquiring third baseman Steve Buechele from the Texas Rangers for two minor league pitchers. He would hit .246 and drive in 19 runs the rest of the way for the Pirates. Then in 1992, they traded him to the Chicago Cubs for pitcher Danny Jackson. The Pirates gave up pitcher Kurt Miller in the original deal. He was the fifth overall draft pick in 1988, but never panned out in the majors.
On this date in 1990, the Pirates gave up three minor league players to the Phillies for 1B/OF Carmelo Martinez. He didn’t do much for the Pirates during the rest of the season, but drove in two runs during the NLCS. He would be traded away during the 1991 season. All three of the players the Pirates gave up eventually reached the majors, but Wes Chamberlain was by far the best and he played just 385 Major League games, so the deal didn’t end up too bad.
Former players born on this date include (bios for each in the link above):
Luis Rivas, 2008 infielder.
Johnny Lindell, 1953 knuckleball pitcher. Started his career as a pitcher, played ten seasons as an outfielder, then went back to pitching.
Charlie Starr, infielder for the 1908 Pirates. Seldom-used backup who got into 20 games all season, seeing time at three different spots.
Will Thompson, pitcher on July 9, 1892. Gave up five runs over three innings in his only big league game. Poor defense led to four unearned runs.
Also born on this date, Hall of Fame outfielder Kiki Cuyler, who played for the Pirates from 1921 until 1927. His .336 batting average is the third best in franchise history. He holds the Pirates’ single season record with 369 total bases in 1925. He drove in six runs during the World Series that year. You can read a full bio of Cuyler here. He was elected to the HOF in 1968.
Alex McRae
Tanner Anderson
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Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect
David Goodhart
A timely and provocative argument from leading political analyst David Goodhart about the severely imbalanced distribution of status and work in western societies.
2020 Awards Winner
Free Press.
What We're Saying
Books to Watch | September 8, 2020
The 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist
By Dylan Schleicher
These are the 40 books we found represent the year best in one way or another. They help us make sense of the challenges 2020 has presented us with, understand the depths of the existing cracks it has exposed in our society, and offer solutions to solve the many truly monumental challenges we face—together. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
The coronavirus pandemic revealed what we ought to have already known: that nurses, caregivers, supermarket workers, delivery drivers, cleaners, and so many others are essential. Until recently, this work was largely regarded as menial by the same society that now lauds them as heroes. How did we get here?
In his groundbreaking follow-up to the bestselling The Road to Somewhere, David Goodhart divides society into people who work with their Heads (cognitive work), with their Hands (manual work), or with their Hearts (caring work), and considers each group’s changing status and influence. Today, the “the best and the brightest” trump the “decent and hardworking.” Qualities like character, compassion, craft, and physical labor command far less respect in our workforce. This imbalance has led to the disaffection and alienation of millions of people.
David Goodhart reveals the untold history behind this disparity and outlines the challenges we face as a result. Cognitive ability has become the gold standard of human esteem, and those in the cognitive class now shape society largely in their own interest. To put it bluntly: smart people have become too powerful.
A healthy democratic society respects and rewards a broad range of achievement, and provides meaning and value for people who cannot—or do not want to—achieve in the classroom and professional career market. We must shift our thinking to see all workers as essential, and not just during crises like the coronavirus pandemic. This is the dramatic story of the struggle for status and dignity in the 21st century.
The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics
Hurst & Co.
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POST-SUPERSESSIONISM
Essays & Theses
About Post-Supersessionism
R. Kendall Soulen, The God of Israel and Christian Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.
Matthew A. Tapie, Aquinas on Israel and the Church: The Question of Supersessionism in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014.
Mark S. Kinzer, Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen: The Resurrected Messiah, the Jewish People, and the Land of Promise. Eugene: Cascade, 2018.
R. Kendall Soulen, The Divine Name(s) and the Holy Trinity: Distinguishing the Voices. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2011.
Gerald R. McDermott, Israel Matters: Why Christians Must Think Differently about the People and the Land. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2017.
Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, ed., Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015.
J. Brian Tucker, Reading Romans after Supersessionism: The Continuation of Jewish Covenantal Identity. Eugene: Cascade, 2018.
Christopher Zoccali, Reading Philippians after Supersessionism: Jews, Gentiles, and Covenant Identity. Eugene: Cascade, 2017.
Lionel J. Windsor, Reading Ephesians and Colossians after Supersessionism: Christ's Mission through Israel to the Nations. Eugene: Cascade, 2017.
David J. Rudolph, A Jew to the Jews: Jewish Contours of Pauline Flexibility in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. Eugene: Pickwick, 2016.
Post-Supersessionist Theology
Gerald R. McDermott, ed., Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Essays on the Relationship Between Christianity and Judaism. Bellingham: Lexham, 2021.
Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology: The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2020.
Douglas A. Campbell, Pauline Dogmatics: The Triumph of God's Love. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020.
William J. Abraham, Divine Agency and Divine Action: Systematic Theology, Volume III. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edjan Westerman, Learning Messiah: Israel and the Nations: Learning to Read God's Way Anew. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2018.
Stuart Dauermann, Converging Destinies: Jews, Christians, and the Mission of God. Eugene: Cascade, 2017.
Ephraim Radner, Church. Eugene: Cascade, 2017.
Nicholas R. Brown, For the Nation: Jesus, the Restoration of Israel and Articulating a Christian Ethic of Territorial Governance. Eugene: Pickwick, 2016.
Gerald R. McDermott, The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2016.
Joel S. Kaminsky, Yet I loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2016.
Mark S. Kinzer, Searching Her Own Mystery: Nostra Aetate, the Jewish People, and the Identity of the Church. Eugene: Cascade, 2015.
Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology: The Doctrine of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015.
Jennifer M. Rosner, Healing the Schism: Barth, Rosenzweig, and the New Jewish-Christian Encounter. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015.
Kayko D. Hesslein, Dual Citizenship: Two Natures Christologies and the Jewish Jesus. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Tommy Givens, We the People: Israel and the Catholicity of Jesus. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
Calvin L. Smith, The Jews, Modern Israel, and the New Supersessionism. Kent: King's Divinity Press, 2013.
Lev Gillet, Communion in the Messiah: Studies in the Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2013.
John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Peter Ochs, Another Reformation: Postliberal Christianity and the Jews. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011.
Michael Vlach, Has the Church Replaced Israel? A Theological Evaluation. Nashville: B&H, 2010.
Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Theological Audacities: Selected Essays. Eugene: Pickwick, 2010.
Istvan Tatai, The Church and Israel: In Search of a New Model in Post-Holocaust Theology. Budapest: KMTI, 2010.
Willie J. Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. New Haven: Yale University, 2010.
Michael Vlach, The Church as a Replacement of Israel: An Analysis of Supersessionism. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009
Jean-Marie Lustiger, The Promise. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
Mark S. Kinzer, Postmissionary Messianic Judaism: Redefining Christian Engagement with the Jewish People. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2005.
Scott Bader-Saye, Church and Israel after Christendom: The Politics of Election. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2005.
Michael Wyschogrod; R. Kendall Soulen, ed., Abraham's Promise: Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson, ed., Jews and Christians: People of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
John Howard Yoder; Michael G. Cartwright and Peter Ochs, ed., Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
Ronald E. Diprose, Israel and the Church: The Origins and Effects of Replacement Theology. Rome: Instituto Biblico Evangelico Italiano, 2000.
David Novak, The Election of Israel: The Idea of the Chosen People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Post-Supersessionist Exegesis
J. Brian Tucker and Aaron Kuecker, ed., T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament. London: T&T Clark, 2020.
Ralph J. Korner, Reading Revelation after Supersessionism: An Apocalyptic Journey of Socially Identifying John's Multi-Ethnic Ekklēsiai with the Ekklēsiai of Israel. Eugene: Cascade, 2020.
Matthew Thiessen, Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity Within First-Century Judaism. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020.
Eyal Regev, The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Mark D. Nanos, Reading Romans within Judaism: Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, Vol. 2. Eugene: Cascade, 2018.
Mark D. Nanos, Reading Paul within Judaism: Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, Vol. 1. Eugene: Cascade, 2017.
Mark D. Nanos, Reading Corinthians and Philippians within Judaism: Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, Vol. 4. Eugene: Cascade, 2017.
Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, ed., Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015.
Isaac W. Oliver, Torah Praxis after 70 CE: Reading Matthew and Luke-Acts as Jewish Texts. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.
Post-Supersessionist Interpretation of Paul
Paul within Judaism Online Library
David J. Rudolph
Supersessionism in Patristic Literature
William L. Krewson, Jerome and the Jews: Innovative Supersessionism. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2017.
Adam Gregerman, Building on the Ruins of the Temple: Apologetics and Polemics in Early Christianity and Ancient Judaism. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.
Paula Fredriksen, Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Thomas A. Robinson, Ignatius of Antioch and the Parting of the Ways: Early Jewish-Christian Relations. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2009.
Robert L. Wilken, John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late 4th Century. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2004.
David Rokéah, Justin Martyr and the Jews. Leiden: Brill, 2001.
Nicholas de Lange, Origen and the Jews: Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations in Third-Century Palestine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Supersessionism and the Parting of the Ways
Tobias Nicklas, Jews and Christians? Second-Century “Christian” Perspectives on the “Parting of the Ways”. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.
Hershel Shanks (ed.), Partings: How Judaism and Christianity Became Two. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2014.
Adiel Schremer, Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity, and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed, ed., The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
Daniel Boyarin, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Daniel Boyarin, Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Post-Supersessionism and Jesus-Believing Jews
Messianic Studies Online Library
Post-Supersessionism and Church Unity
Father Peter Hocken's Online Teaching Library
Toward Jerusalem Council II
Post-Supersessionism and Jewish-Christian Relations
Documents and Statements
Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
Gavin D'Costa, Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People after Vatican II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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West column: Do not exonerate
“Complete and Total EXONERATION!” tweeted President Trump upon the release of Attorney General Barr’s summary of Special Counsel Mueller’s report. There’s just one problem: That’s not what the special counsel’s report says.
In fact, it’s not even what the summary says. While the attorney general made it clear that Mueller found no evidence of the Trump campaign directly colluding with the Russian government to affect the election, it also specifically quotes the special counsel saying his findings “do not exonerate” the president on the question of obstruction.
Unfortunately, far too many commentators are rushing to embrace the president’s narrative. The far right, eager to take advantage of this period of time where we don’t know the full contents of the report, is spiking the football. The fringe left has been strangely gleeful as well, always preferring the satisfaction of an “I told you so” over an actual political victory. And caught in the center, the hapless ‘mainstream media’ is giving bad faith criticism of its coverage of the Mueller investigation undue consideration — and gobbling up the White House’s talking points hook, line, and sinker.
But the truth of the matter is that we still don’t know what’s in Mueller’s report. According to CNN, it is more than 300 pages long; Barr’s summary clocks in at only four, with not a single sentence of Mueller’s findings quoted in full. Add to this the fact that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is blocking a resolution to demand transparency as well as a reminder that Barr attacked the special counsel for investigating obstruction even before he was hand-picked as attorney general, and it’s hard to argue there isn’t a cover up going on.
After all, we’ve seen obstruction happening in real time for the past two years thanks to President Trump. We saw him fire the FBI director and admit in a television interview that it was because of “this Russia thing.” We saw him bully his own attorney general repeatedly for failing to bend the Department of Justice to his will — or stop the investigation before it even started. We saw him deny Russian meddling in our election live on the world stage, right next to the Russian who meddled. And we saw him issue tweet after tweet attacking the Mueller investigation as it was happening.
But a robust defense of Mueller’s work shouldn’t stop there. It is true that, according to Barr’s summary, some legal standard for “collusion” wasn’t met. But Mueller still dissected how Russia attacked our democracy. He still identified multiple instances of Russians offering help to the Trump campaign, and the Trump campaign in turn taking their meetings, spreading their disinformation, and hyping their stolen materials. He still found very real and very active links between the president’s criminal campaign manager and Russian intelligence operatives. And he still uncovered millions of dollars worth of illegal activity along the way.
To wrap this all up with a quick 48 hour review and a wave of media coverage about how, actually, the president is the real victim in all this, does us all a disservice. And it will do nothing to keep Russia from interfering just as aggressively in the run-up to 2020.
Ultimately, all of this drives home why Barr must release the full report, and its underlying documentation, to Congress and the American people as soon as possible. To be sure, some redactions must be allowed for – the intelligence community must protect its sources, and grand jury information must stay concealed by law. But beyond that, we need all other information; another summary, or a version with pages upon pages of blacked out text, simply cannot be trusted.
Then, and only then, will we be able to make a full judgement about Mueller’s findings. And it will surely be a much more complicated conclusion than can fit in a 280-character presidential tweet.
You can email Graham West at gwest@trumancnp.org.
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Czech Health Minister Proposes to Close Shops and Hairdressers
The Czech government will discuss further measures against the spread of the coronavirus. Health Minister Roman Prymula said that the current restrictions were not doing enough to reduce contact among the population.
The biggest impact on the Czech health care system is expected between November 3 and 11. Due to the current situation, the government will meet in an extraordinary session on Wednesday (October 21) at 8 am.
According to the Czech news server Seznam Zprávy, the Minister of Health will propose to the government the closure of shops and public services, such as hairdressers.
Czech Ministry Wants to Change Definition of Term "Family Member"
25 New Brands Came to the Czech Market Last Year
The reason? According to statistics, Czech people currently interact with reach other a third more than they did in spring, when the government announced the lockdown.
Read: Prague Plans for Tourists’ Return With Visitors Pass
From today at midnight (Tuesday, October 20), face masks must be worn everywhere in the Czech Republic. The measure applies to all pedestrians if people are closer than two meters apart.
Family members walking together and people doing sport are exempt from the requirement to wear masks.
On Tuesday at 6 pm, the Czech Republic reported 6,800 new COVID-19 cases. The total number rose to 188,800.
According to the latest data of the Ministry of Health, there are 3,721 people who are currently hospitalized.
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Czech Ministry Wants to Change Definition of Term “Family Member”
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PM Says Restrictions Will be Lifted When ‘Daily Cases Drop to 1-2 Thousand’
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says that the Government may look at the lifting of coronavirus restrictions once “the…
Czech Scientists Create New COVID-19 Tests
The Czech biotechnology company Bioinova has completed new test kits for COVID-19 that can be used not only…
Xvideos, Pornhub’s Largest Rival, Is Under Investigation in the Czech Republic
Xvideos faces backlash as the site contains videos of sexual abuse against women and children. Xvideos, one of…
UK Coronavirus Mutation ‘Very Likely’ Detected in the Czech Republic
“There is a concrete suspicion of the British virus strain in the country,” Czech authorities said today in…
Czech Company in Negotiations to Acquire Iconic Firearm Maker Colt
It would appear that an agreement in principle has been reached but key negotiations on certain elements continue.…
Czech Republic Ranks #18 Out of 27 in Europe COVID-19 Vaccination Rate
Denmark leads the way in Covid-19 inoculations in the European Union, having already given 2% of its population…
House Prices in the Czech Republic Fifth Highest in the EU in Q3
In the third quarter of 2020, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.9%…
Restaurants and Shops Could Already Open in Prague
The anti-epidemic risk index (PES) in the country decreased to 75 points, which corresponds to the fourth level…
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You can change your cookie settings at any time. Series 63 Difficulty & Pass Rate Post reply. The Series 86 and 87 exams — the Research Analyst Exams — assess the competency of an entry-level registered representative to perform their job as a research analyst. Request an accessible format. Does FINRA Rule 1220(b)(6) apply to everyone who works in equity research or just those who write a research report that will be seen by the public? On some TVs, setting 'Auto Motion Plus' to 'Custom' with both sliders to 0 will fix it without adding any soap opera effect. To pass this judder-free 24p test, a TV must be able to recognize that a 24 fps video is playing and adjust its refresh rate so that the video is played at 24 frames per second. Attainment.STATISTICS@education.gov.uk, Telephone: Raffaele Sasso
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Power Problems
By Cato Institute
Category: News & Politics
Power Problems is a bi-weekly podcast from the Cato Institute. Host John Glaser offers a skeptical take on U.S. foreign policy, and discusses today’s big questions in international security with distinguished guests from across the political spectrum. Podcast Hashtag: #FPPowerProblems.
Shining a Light on the SolarWinds Hack
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Did Russia commit a cyber attack or cyber espionage? What is the difference and how does it affect the U.S. response and future of cybersecurity? Cato Institute’s own Brandon Valeriano and Atlantic Council’s Erica Borghard join host John Glaser to discuss the severity of the SolarWinds hack and its implications for the broader cybersecurity political landscape.
1. Brandon Valeriano bio: https://www.cato.org/people/brandon-valeriano
Erica Borghard bio: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/erica-borghard/
2. Sean Lawson and Brandon Valeriano, “The Russian ‘Cyber Peral Harbor’ That Wasn’t,” The American Conservative, December 18, 2020.Benjamin Jensen, Brandon Valeriano, and Mark Montgomery, “The Strategic Implications of SolarWinds,” Lawfare Blog, December 18, 2020.
3. Erica D. Borghard, “The SolarWinds Compromise and the Strategic Challenge of Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain,” Council on Foreign Relations, December 22, 2020.
Erica Borghard and Jacquelyn Schneider, “Russia’s Hack Wasn’t Cyberwarfare. That Complicates US Strategy,” Wired, December 17, 2020.
Should America Abandon "Global Leadership"?
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Peter Beinart and host John Glaser discuss the problems of "global leadership" in U.S. foreign policy, why Washington over-spends on the wrong threats, the implications of President-elect Biden's incoming national security team, and how America should approach an increasingly influential China.
1. Peter Beinart bio: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Political-Science/Faculty-Bios/Peter-Beinart
2. Peter Beinart, Biden Wants America to Leader the World. It Shouldn’t., New York Times, December 2, 2020.
3. Peter Beinart, How I Changed My Mind, The Beinart Notebook, December 7, 2020.
Liberalizing the Liberal Order?
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After four years of an unpredictable commander-in-chief, it’s time to think about the future of U.S. foreign policy. John and David Hendrickson discuss the Trump to Biden transition, the illiberal nature of the "liberal order," and the impact of domestic politics on foreign policy, among other issues.
1. David C. Hendrickson bio: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/politicalscience/people/profile.html?person=hendrickson_david
2. David C. Hendrickson, Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition, (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Manifest Destiny in the Stars?
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President Donald Trump has shown excitement about the newly created Space Force division of the military. Is it worth the hype? According to Robert Farley, there is still too much unknown to make that call.
1.Robert M. Farley bio: https://www.uky.edu/~rmfarl2/
2. There is no link yet to his Cato paper referenced as it has yet to be published. It’s a PA titled: Space Force: Ahead of Its Time, or Dreadfully Premature?
Robert M. Farley and Davida H. Issacs, Patents for Power: Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military Technology (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020).
Robert M. Farley, Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force (Louisville, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2014).
Trump to Biden: A foreign Policy Shift?
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How will President-elect Biden change US foreign policy? John Glaser talks to Emma Ashford of the Atlantic Council about the transition from Trump to Biden, and from host Emma to host John.
Emma Ashford Bio https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/emma-ashford/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/joe-biden-just-won-the-presidency-what-does-that-mean-for-americas-role-in-the-world/
Thucydides Again?
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Power transitions are a hot topic in international relations! David Kang and Xinru Ma join Emma Ashford to discuss why we should look outside Europe for insight.
David Kang Bio: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1024445
Xinru Ma Bio: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/xinru-ma#:~:text=She%20uses%20game%20theoretical%20models,processing%20methods%20to%20large%2Dscale
David Kang and Xinru Ma, “Power Transitions: Thucydides Didn’t Live in East Asia,” Washington Quarterly.
On Declinism and American Influence
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Is American influence declining? Emma Ashford talks to Ali Wyne and Gabby Tarini of the Rand Corporation about their new report on America in the world.
Ali Wyne Bio: https://www.ducoexperts.com/users/ali-wyne
Gabrielle Tarini Bio: https://www.rand.org/about/people/t/tarini_gabrielle.html
James Dobbins, Gabrielle Tarini, and Ali Wyne, “The Lost Generation in American Foreign Policy,” RAND Corporation.
China, India, and Sovereignty in the Himalayas
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Emma Ashford talks with MIT’s Taylor Fravel about ongoing China-India tensions and what China wants from the world.
1. Taylor Fravel bio: https://polisci.mit.edu/people/m-taylor-fravel
2. Taylor Fravel, “Why are India and China Skirmishing at their Border?” Washington Post.
3. Taylor Fravel, “China’s Sovereignty Obsession,” Foreign Affairs.
A Tour of South Asia
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Paul Staniland of the University of Chicago joins Emma Ashford to discuss current events in India, Pakistan, and South Asia.
Paul Staniland bio: https://paulstaniland.com/
Paul Staniland, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Political Violence in South Asia: The Triumph of the State?”
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Donald Trump has taken America’s relationship with Europe from bad to worse. Emma Ashford chats with Rachel Rizzo of the Truman Project about the prospects for transatlantic relations.
1. Rachel Rizzo Bio.
2. Tom McTague, "Remember the 90s, Don't Long for a Return," The Atlantic.
3. Emma Ashford, "Biden Wants to Go Back to a Normal Foreign Policy. That's the Problem," The New York Times.
Power Problems/Pop & Locke Crossover: Dr. Strangelove
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In a special crossover episode, Emma sits down with the hosts of the Pop & Locke podcast and members of the Cato Foreign Policy team to explore how pop culture interacts with nuclear weapons, and why we should stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.
Pop and Locke Podcast: https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/pop-and-locke
Eric Schlosser, The New Yorker, “Almost Everything in Dr. Strangelove was True.”
Eric Gomez and Caroline Dorminey, “America’s Nuclear Crossroads”
After Coronavirus III: Great Powers and COVID
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In the third of our series on the world after the coronavirus, we talk about great power politics and U.S.-China relations, with returning guest Joshua Shifrinson of Boston University.
1. Joshua Shifrinson Bio: https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/joshua-shifrinson/
2. Joshua Shifrinson, International Security, “Partnership or Predation? How Rising States Contend With Declining Great Powers.”
3. Emma Ashford and Matthew Kroenig, Foreign Policy, “Is This The Beginning of a New Cold War with China?”
After Coronavirus II: The Pandemic and The Defense Budget
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In the second of our series on the world after the coronavirus, we look at the impact on Pentagon spending. Will the coronavirus prompt us to reconsider the defense budget?
Sen. Bernie Sanders, "Defund the Pentagon: The Liberal Case," Politico
Andrew Lautz and Jonathan Bydlak, "Defund the Pentagon: The Conservative Case," Politico
Eric Gomez, Lauren Sander, and Brandon Valeriano, "OCOMust Go," Defense One
Trevor's Farewell Episode
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Special episode! As Trevor Thrall prepares to depart the show, our hosts chat about the show’s run and how U.S. foreign policy has changed since we've been on the air.
After Coronavirus I: Can the Global Economy be Saved?
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In the first of a three-part series, Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall explore what international relations might look like after coronavirus. Today’s guest is Dan Drezner, a professor at Tufts University, who joins them to talk about global economic relations.
Daniel Drezner bio: https://fletcher.tufts.edu/people/daniel-drezner
Daniel Drezner, “There is No China Crisis,” Reason Magazine: https://reason.com/2020/04/25/there-is-no-china-crisis/
Daniel Drezner, “The Most Counterintuitive Prediction About World Politics and the Coronavirus,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/30/most-counterintuitive-prediction-about-world-politics-covid-19/
Emma Ashford and Matthew Kroenig, “Will Trump’s Decision To Cut WHO Funding Accomplish Anything?” Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/17/will-trumps-decision-to-cut-who-funding-accomplish-anything/
Christopher Preble, “How Will Coronavirus Change US National Security Strategy?” Responsible Statecraft: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/how-will-covid-19-change-us-national-security-strategy
The Robot Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall chat with Peter Singer of New America about his new novel Burn In, and why fiction can be useful for our understanding of national security policy.
Peter Singer bio, https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/peter-warren-singer/
Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, https://www.burninbook.com/
Surveillance Takes Wing: Privacy in the Age of Police Drones, Matthew Feeney, https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/surveillance-takes-wing-privacy-age-police-drones
How Drones are Changing Warfare, Cato Unbound, https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/january-2012/how-drones-are-changing-warfare
Building a Modern Military: The Force Meets Geopolitical Realities
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Eric Gomez and Christopher Preble join Emma Ashford to discuss their new paper, “Building a Modern Military,” and how COVID-19 will change the U.S. military.
Eric Gomez bio: https://www.cato.org/people/eric-gomez
Christopher Preble bio: https://www.cato.org/people/christopher-preble
Building a Modern Military: https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/building-modern-military-force-meets-geopolitical-realities#citation
What the World Thinks about America in the Age of COVID-19
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Mark Hannah of the Eurasia Group Foundation joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to talk about how the world views America and American-style democracy in the age of COVID-19.
Mark Hannah bio: https://egfound.org/about/our-team
Eurasia Group Foundation, Global Views of American Democracy (2020)
Mark Hannah, “Stop Declaring War on a Virus,” War on the Rocks
Donald Trump and the Generals
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Alice Hunt Friend of the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to talk about the increasingly strained relations between civilian and military leaders in the Trump administration.
Alice Hunt Friend bio: https://www.csis.org/people/alice-hunt-friend
This is What Was So Unusual About Making Capt. Bret Crozier Step Down: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/05/this-is-what-was-so-unusual-about-us-navy-making-captain-brett-crozier-step-down/
The Military Can’t Save Us From Covid-19: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/04/14/military-cant-save-us-covid-19.html
COVID-19 and International Security
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Greg Koblentz of George Mason University joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to talk about the international security implications of the coronavirus pandemic.
Greg Koblentz bio
Greg Koblentz and Mike Hunzeker, "National Security in the Age of Pandemics," Defense One, April 3, 2020
Gregory Koblentz, "Biosecurity Reconsidered: Calibrating Biological Threats and Responses," International Security, vol. 34, no. 4, Spring 2010
Velibor Jakovleski, "Governance, in Crisis: What COVID-19 Means for the Present and Future of Global Governance," TheGlobal.com, April 8, 2020
George Mason University: Biodefense Program, The Pandora Report
Amer-Exit?
38:59 https://feeds.acast.com/public/streams/5e3db1b9659d595770f8b9b0/episodes/5e879a1b71c279a424a3d49c.mp3 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/1282100393hd.jpg 3807258291 5e879a1b71c279a424a3d49c
Dan Nexon of Georgetown University joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to talk about his new book, Exit from Hegemony.
Dan Nexon
Exit from Hegemony
Dan Nexon, "What if COVID-19 Is Our First Case of Global (Non)cooperation in a Post-hegemonic World?"
Power Problems: Great Power Competition, Part I | Power Problems: Great Power Competition, Part II
A Strategy for Cyberspace?
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Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall are joined by Brandon Valeriano to discuss the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s official report.
Brandon Valeriano bio
Cyberspace Solarium Commission
Brandon Valeriano and Benjamin Jensen, "The Myth of the Cyber Offense: The Case for Restraint," Cato Institute Policy Analysis 862, January 15, 2019.
Brandon Valeriano, Benjamin Jensen, and Ryan C. Mannes, Cyber Strategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coercion (Oxford University Press, 2018)
OPEC+ or OPEC-?
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Emma Ashford and John Glaser are joined by political scientist Ellen Wald to discuss how global oil markets interact with U.S. foreign policy.
Ellen Wald website
Event: The Iran Crisis and American Energy Security
Ellen Wald on Forbes.com
Rosemary Kelanic and Charles Glaser, Crude Strategy: Rethinking the U.S. Military Commitment to the Persian Gulf
Twitter in the Time of Trump
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Join Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford as we discuss public engagement in the Trump era with Paul Poast, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Paul Poast bio
Paul Poast, "Twitter Threads,"
Tanisha M. Fazal and Paul Poast, "War Is Not Over: What the Optimists Get Wrong About Conflict." Foreign Affairs, November/December 2019
Greeted as Liberators? Regime Change and Reality
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Join Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford as we discuss the failures and history of regime change with Ben Denison, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Benjamin Denison bio
Benjamin Denison, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Failure of Regime-Change Operations," Policy Analysis 881
Benjamin Denison, "Regime Change Rarely Succeeds. When will the U.S. learn?," Washington Post, January 9, 2020
Christopher Preble, "Covert Wars, to What End?," War on the Rocks, August 7, 2019
The Future of Progressive Foreign Policy
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Adam Mount, Senior Fellow and the Director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, joins Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford to discuss the future of progressive foreign policy.
Adam Mount bio
Adam Mount, “Principles for a Progressive Defense Policy, Texas National Security Review, December 2018
Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall, “The Battle Inside the Political Parties for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy,” War on the Rocks, December 12, 2018
Trevor Thrall and Jordan Cohen, “The Democrats’ Search for a New Foreign Policy,” Cato.org, January 16, 2020
Reading Trump’s Trade Tea Leaves
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Dan Ikenson, director of Cato’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, joins Trevor Thrall and guest host John Glaser to discuss the economic and foreign policy implications of Trump’s recent trade deals.
Daniel J. Ikenson bio
Daniel J. Ikenson, “A Few Things to Like about the U.S.-China Trade Deal,” Cato at Liberty, December 16, 2019
Daniel J. Ikenson, “Trump’s Alleged Trade Deal with China Would Fix Nothing,” Cato at Liberty, December 13, 2019
Simon Lester and Inu Manak, “The USMCA Is Moving Forward (Too) Quickly,” Cato at Liberty, December 16, 2019
China’s Authoritarian Turn
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Michael Swaine, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Trevor Thrall and guest host John Glaser to discuss the crisis in Hong Kong, the plight of the Uighurs, and China’s recent authoritarian turn.
Michael Swaine bio
Michael Swaine, “Chinese State‐Society Relations: Why Beijing Isn’t Trembling and Containment Won’t Work,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 14, 2019
Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley, ““Absolutely No Mercy”: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims,” New York Times, November 16, 2019
Richard McGregor, “Party Man: Xi Jinping’s Quest to Dominate China,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2019
Maximum Pressure Meets Maximum Resistance: Trump vs. Iran
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Negar Mortazavi, diplomatic correspondent for The Independent, joins Trevor Thrall and guest host John Glaser to discuss the impact of U.S. sanctions on Iran, recent Iranian protests, and the future of the JCPOA.
Negar Mortazavi coverage at The Independent
Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gladstone, “With Brutal Crackdown, Iran Is Convulsed by Worst Unrest in 40 Years,” New York Times, December 1, 2019
Doug Bandow, “Trump Must Understand a War with Iran Would Be Hell,” The National Interest, November 21, 2019
Irregular Channels: Unpacking the Ukraine Affair
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Jim Goldgeier, former dean of the School of International Service at American University and resident scholar at the Brookings Institution, joins Trevor Thrall and guest host John Glaser to discuss President Trump’s use of irregular channels of foreign policy making in Ukraine.
Jim Goldgeier Bio
Goldgeier and Saunders, “How much have Trump’s dealings with Ukraine deviated from the norm?” Washington Post
Mitchell Orenstein, “Welcome to the United States of Ukraine,” Foreign Policy
The Quincy Institute Makes a Splash
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Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, joins Trevor Thrall and guest host John Glaser to discuss the launch of Washington D.C.’s newest foreign policy think tank.
Quincy Institute website
Stephen Wertheim, “The Quincy Institute Opposes America’s Endless Wars. Why Should That Be a Scandal?,” Wahington Post, August 30, 2019
David Klion, “Can a New Think Tank Put a Stop to Endless War?,” The Nation, July 29, 2019
Curt Mills, “Realism Resurgent: The Rise of the Quincy Institute,” National Interest, July 1, 2019
Kelley Vlahos, “The Quincy Institute Seeks Warmongering Monsters to Destroy,” The American Conservative, July 30, 2019
Misplaced Confidence or Militarized Patriotism? Public Attitudes towards the U.S. Military
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David Burbach from the U.S. Naval War College joins Trevor Thrall and guest host John Glaser to discuss civil‐military relations and public attitudes towards the military.
David T. Burbach bio
David Burbach, “Gaining Trust While Losing Wars: Confidence in the U.S. Military after Iraq and Afghanistan,” Orbis, vol. 61, no. 1, 2019
David Burbach, “Partisan Dimensions of Confidence in the U.S. Military, 1973–2016,” Armed Forces and Society, January 11, 2018
Jim Golby and Peter Feaver, “Thank You for Your Lip Service? Social Pressure to Support the Troops,” War on the Rocks, August 14, 2019
David Barno and Nora Bensehel, “Thank You for Your Lip Service? Social Pressure to Support the Troops,” War on the Rocks, June 18, 2019
Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America’s Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse
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Christopher Preble and John Glaser join Trevor Thrall to discuss their new book, Fuel to the Fire, which assesses Donald Trump’s foreign policies and makes the case for greater restraint in international affairs.
Christopher A. Preble bio
John Glaser bio
Trevor Thrall bio
Christopher A. Preble, John Glaser, Trevor Thrall, Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America’s Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Can Recover)
Fuel to the Fire promotional page
Tests and Temptations: The Nuclear Balance in Asia
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Vipin Narang of the M.I.T. Department of Political Science joins Trevor Thrall and guest host Eric Gomez to discuss nuclear trends and the nuclear balance in Asia.
Vipin Narang bio
Vipin Narang, “Why North Korea Is Testing Missiles Again,” Foreign Affairs, May 16, 2019
Vipin Narang, “India’s Counterforce Temptations,” International Security, Winter 2018/19
Caroline Dorminey and Eric Gomez, “America’s Nuclear Crossroads: A Forward‐Looking Anthology,” June 2019
Should We Stay or Should We Go? The U.S. and the Middle East
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Gregory Gause from the Bush School at Texas A&M joins Trevor Thrall and John Glaser to discuss U.S. policy and strategy in the Middle East in the wake of the missile strike on the Saudi oil facilities.
F. Gregory Gause bio
F. Gregory Gause, “Should We Stay or Should We Go? The United States and the Middle East,” Survival, Fall 2019.
Gregory Gause, “Why the U.S. Should Stay Out of Saudi Politics,” Foreign Affairs, December 2018.
John Glaser and Emma Ashford, “Unforced Error: The Risks of Confrontation with Iran,” Cato Institute Policy Analysis , October 9, 2017.
Robin Wright, “Trump’s Close-Call Diplomacy with Iran’s President,” New Yorker, September 28, 2019
U.S. Institute of Peace, “Timeline: Tensions between Washington and Tehran,” May 8, 2019.
The US Defense Industry: Arsenal of Democracy or the Walmarts of War?
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Jonathan Caverley of the Naval War College joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to discuss the defense industry and the arms trade.
Jonathan Caverley bio
Jonathan Caverley, “Slowing the Proliferation of Major Conventional Weapons: The Virtues of an Uncompetitive Market,” Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 2017
Jonathan Caverley, “America’s Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home,” War on the Rocks, April 6, 2018
Security Assistance Monitor
SIPRI Arms Transfers Database
A. Trevor Thrall and Caroline Dorminey, “Risky Business: The Role of Arms Sales in U.S. Foreign Policy,” Policy Analysis, No. 836, March 13, 2018
Ray Rounds, “The Case against Embargos, Even for Saudi Arabia,” War on the Rocks, April 16, 2019
Dunking on Huntington: Nationalism in U.S. Foreign Policy
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Hilde Restad, a professor of International Relations at Bjorknes College in Oslo, Norway, joins us to discuss Trump’s foreign policy, nationalism, and the view from Europe.
Hilde Restad bio
Hilde Restad, American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World
Cato Unbound, “The Clash of Civilizations?,” February 2017
The Trade War to End All Trade Wars?
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Matthew Goodman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to discuss Trump’s trade war with China.
Matthew P. Goodman bio
Matthew P. Goodman and Ely Ratner, “A Better Way to Challenge China on Trade: Trump’s Harmful Tariffs Aren’t the Answer,” Foreign Affairs, March 22, 2018
Eswar Prasad, “Which country is better equipped to win a U.S.-China trade war?” Washington Post, August 9, 2019.
If I Had a Hammer
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Monica Toft, Professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, joins us to discuss the growth in U.S. military interventions and the decline of diplomacy.
Monica Toft bio
Monica Toft, “The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy,” War on the Rocks, May 14, 2018
The Military Intervention Project
Power Problems Live! The Kennan Sweepstakes
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In our special live episode of Power Problems, Emma Ashford chats with Heather Hurlburt of New America about ongoing debates on the future of U.S. grand strategy.
Heather Hurlburt bio
Heather Hurlburt, “Making Sense of the Grand Strategy Debate,” Lawfare, June 7, 2019
Emma Ashford, Hal Brands, Jasen Castillo, Kate Kizer, Rebecca Lissner, Jeremy Shapiro, and Joshua Shifrinson, “New Voices in Grand”
Daniel Drezner, Mira Rapp‐Hooper, Rebecca Lissner, Stephen Walt and Kori Schake, “Searching for a Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2019
Ben Sasse, “The End of the End of History,” Texas National Security Review, February 2019
Emma Ashford, “The Gentleman from Nebraska Misfires on Foreign Policy,” War on the Rocks, May 6, 2019
Ganesh Sitaraman, “The Emergence of Progressive Foreign Policy,” War on the Rocks, April 15, 2019
Colin Dueck, Elliot Abrams, Emma Ashford, John Fonte, Henry R. Nau, Nadia Schadlow, Kelley Vlahos, Dov Zakheim, “The Future of Conservative Foreign Policy,” Texas National Security Review, November 30, 2018
Van Jackson, Heather Hurlburt, Adam Mount, Loren Schulman, Thomas Wright, “The Future of Progressive Foreign Policy,” Texas National Security Review, December 4, 2018
The John Quincy Adams Society
Nuclear Crossroads II: The Arms Control Serial Killer
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In part two of the focus on America’s Nuclear Crossroads, Emma Ashford and guest host Eric Gomez delve into the future of arms control agreements with Maggie Tennis of the Brookings Institute.
Maggie Tennis bio
America’s Nuclear Crossroads
Nuclear Crossroads I: America Ad Astra
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Todd Harrison from the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to discuss the proposed Space Force, war in space, and his chapter in the forthcoming Cato report America’s Nuclear Crossroads.
Todd Harrison bio
Aerospace Security Project at CSIS, “Commanding Space: The Story Behind the Space Force
Todd Harrison, “A Space Force is Worth the Price”
The Arab Winter
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With new protests in Sudan, ongoing conflict in Syria, and continued regional tensions, the legacies of the Arab Spring are everywhere in the Middle East. Peter Mandaville joins us to discuss.
Peter Mandaville bio
Kamron Bohkari and Peter Mandaville, The Muslim Brotherhood and American Muslims, Center for Global Policy, August 11, 2018
Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid, “Islam as Statecraft: How Governments Use Religion in Foreign Policy,” Brookings Institute, November 2018
America Adrift: Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy
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What kind of foreign policy do Americans want? Not the one they have, apparently. To learn more Emma and Trevor chat with Peter Juul from the Center for American Progress about a new report from the Center for American Progress, “America Adrift: How the U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Misses What Voters Really Want.”
Peter Juul bio
Center for American Progress, “America Adrift: How the U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Misses What Voters Really Want”
Eurasia Group Foundation, “Worlds Apart: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Public Opinion”
Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, “America Engaged: American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy”
Peace, War and Liberty
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American presidents often praise U.S. foreign policy as a force for global freedom and liberty. We chat with Chris Preble about his new book, Peace, War, and Liberty.
Christopher Preble bio
Christopher Preble, Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy
Free Thoughts/Power Problems Crossover: “What do Libertarians Believe About Foreign Policy?”
Will John Bolton Finally Get His Iran War?
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Arguments about the Iraq War loom large over pretty much every foreign policy debate in Washington. Does the Trump administration have similar intentions towards Iran? Lawrence Wilkerson joins us to discuss.
Lawrence Wilkerson bio
Lawrence Wilkerson, “I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again/a>,” New York Times, February 5, 2018
Dexter Filkins, John Bolton on the Warpath, New Yorker, May 6, 2019
Insurgent Women
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Women play an increasingly important role as insurgents and rebels in civil conflicts all over the world. But most often their story goes untold and their impact has been poorly understood. Jessica Trisko Darden, co‐author of Insurgent Women, joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to discuss her new book to discuss.
Jessica Trisko Darden bio
Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekely, Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars (Georgetown University Press 2019).
Jessica Trisko Darden, “https://theconversation.com/how-women-wage-war-a-short-history-of-is-brides-nazi-guards-and-farc-insurgents-113011 The Conversation, March 8, 2019.
Jessica Trisko Darden, “Return from ISIS: American Women Want Out of Extremism,” NPR On Point podcast.
Mia Bloom, Bombshell: Women and Terrorism (University of Pennsylvania, 2011).
Jessica Davis, Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
Back to the Future: China, the U.S. and the “New Cold War”
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Pundits seem increasingly undecided whether we’re living in a new Cold War, or simply making a return to the 1930s. Ali Wyne of the RAND corporation joins us to discuss great power competition, the problem of foreign policy by analogy, and what the global order might look like in the future.
Ali Wyne bio
Ali Wyne, America’s Blind Ambition Could Make It a Victim of Global Competition, National Interest, February 11, 2019
Ali Wyne, Questioning the Presumption of a U.S.-China Power Transition, RAND Corporation, January 9, 2019
Enter the Cyber Mercenaries
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The cyber era has amplified the impact of non‐state actors on international relations. From election meddling to sabotage to espionage, states are using non‐state actors as proxies to do their dirty work. Tim Maurer from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace joins Trevor Thrall and John Glaser to talk about the rise, reach, and implications of these cyber mercenaries.
Tim Maurer bio
Tim Maurer, Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power
Brandon Valentino and Benjamin Jensen, “The Myth of the Cyber Offense: The Case for Restraint,” Policy Analysis 862, January 15, 2019.
Failure (to Launch?): Donald Trump in Hanoi
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Donald Trump’s second summit with Kim Jong Un has come and gone, this time in abject failure. Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall are joined by Harry Kazianis of the Center for the National Interest to discuss where U.S.-North Korean relations go from here.
Harry Kazianis bio
"A Top Trump Official May Have Just Doomed US-North Korea Talks," Vox, March 8, 2019
"Dealing with North and South Korea: Can Washington Square the Circle?" Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maduro?
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Controversy is growing over the Trump administration’s approach to Venezuela, where the United States has backed opposition leader Juan Guaido in his attempt to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power. Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford are joined by Venezuela expert Moises Rendon to discuss the situation.
Guest Bio: Moises Rendond
Moises Rendon, “Food vs. Freedom in Venezuela,” July 9, 2018
Amanda Sakuma, “The Last 48 hours in Venezuela News, Explained,” Vox, February 24, 2019
Great Power Competition, Part II
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The Trump administration has emphasized the reemergence of great power competition as the organizing principle for U.S. foreign policy. How will international relations change in an era when new actors are challenging the status quo? In Part II of our great power special, Professor Stacie E. Goddard of Wellesley College joins Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford to talk about her recent book, When Might Makes Right, about the relationship between rising powers and existing great powers.
Guest Bio: Stacie Goddard
Stacie Goddard, “When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order”
Stacie Goddard, “Uncommon Ground: Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy,” International Organizations, vol. 60, no. 1, January 2006
Cato Policy Forum, “The Return of Great Power Competition.” January 15, 2019
Great Power Competition, Part I
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Great Power competition is back. How will international relations change in an era when new actors are challenging the status quo. In Part I of our great power special, Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford are joined by Joshua Shifrinson, author of Rising Titans, Falling Giants, a book on great power rise and decline.
Joshua Shifrinson's bio
Joshua Shifrinson, Rising Titans, Falling Giants
"The Return of Great Power Competition"
David Edelstein, Over the Horizon
Stacie Goddard, When Might Makes Right
Paul MacDonald and Joseph Parent, Twilight of the Titans
Mr. Trump, Tear Down That Wall
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From trade to immigration, the Trump administration takes a much broader view of national security than prior administrations. Cato Senior Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh joins Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford to talk about the links between immigration and national security.
Alex Nowrasteh’s bio
Alex Nowrasteh, “Incarcerated Immigrants in 2016: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin,” Immigration Research and Policy Brief, June 4, 2018
Alex Nowrasteh, “How Trump Is Really Changing Immigration: Making It Harder for People to Come Here Legally,” Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2018
Alex Nowrasteh, “Terrorism and Immigration: A Risk Analysis,” Policy Analysis
Holiday Edition: 2018 in Review
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Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford are joined by Cato colleague Eric Gomez for a discussion of the year in review, and a preview of 2019. From nuclear weapons and North Korea to the U.S.-Saudi relationship, it’s been a wild year.
Eric Gomez’s bio
Nostalgianomics: Trump, Trade, and American Foreign Policy
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Attorney and Cato Institute adjunct scholar Scott Lincicome joins Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford to discuss the Trump administration’s trade strategy and the role of international trade in U.S. foreign policy.
Scott Lincicome’s bio
Scott Lincicome, The “Protectionist Moment” That Wasn’t: American Views on Trade and Globalization, Free Trade Bulletin
Scott Lincicome, “Doomed to Repeat It: The Long History of America’s Protectionist Failures, Policy Analysis
Free Thoughts/Power Problems Crossover: What do Libertarians Believe About Foreign Policy?
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In a special crossover episode, Trevor and Emma sit down with the hosts of the Free Thoughts podcast for a wide‐ranging discussion of how libertarians view foreign policy.
Free Thoughts Podcast
Emma Ashford, “Libertarianism, Restraint and the Bipartisan Future,” Texas National Security Review, November 30, 2018
The Future of Liberal Foreign Policy
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In the second half of our election special, Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford are joined by Jake Sullivan, a former senior advisor to Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, to discuss the future of foreign policy in the Democratic party.
Jake Sullivan bio
Dan Nexon, “Toward A Neo‐Progressive Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs
Bernie Sanders, “Building a Global Democratic Movement to Counter Authoritarianism,” Speech at SAIS
Peter Beinart, “Shield of the Republic: A Democratic Foreign Policy for the Trump Age,” The Atlantic
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The Future of Conservative Foreign Policy
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Bryan McGrath, Deputy Director of the Center for American Seapower at the Hudson Institute, joins Trevor and Emma to discuss the evolution of conservative foreign policy during the Trump era.
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Bryan McGrath bio
Henry Nau, Conservative Internationalism (Princeton University Press 2015)
Eliot Cohen, The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force (Basic Books 2018)
Robert Kagan, The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World (Knopf 2018)
Scattershot Sanctions: The Trump Administration and the World
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Elizabeth Rosenberg, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security joins Trevor and Emma to discuss the Trump administration’s eclectic approach to sanctions policy, and the impact of looming Iran sanctions.
Elizabeth Rosenberg bio
Elizabeth Rosenberg, The EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran, Foreign Affairs, October 10, 2018
Jacob J. Lew and Richard Nephew, The Use and Misuse of Economic Statecraft, Foreign Affairs, October 15, 2018
Emma Ashford, Not‐So‐Smart Sanctions, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2016
Cato Unbound, Do Economic Sanctions Work?, November 2014
Donald Trump, the Blob, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
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Bonus Episode! Harvard’s Steven Walt joins Emma Ashford and guest host Caroline Dorminey to discuss his new book, The Hell of Good Intentions, and why America’s foreign policy failures helped to elect Donald Trump.
Stephen Walt bio
Stephen Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions
Cato Book Event, The Hell of Good Intentions
Stephen Walt, The Donald vs. The Blob, Foreign Policy, May 16, 2018
Thrall and Friedman, U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century — The Case for Restraint
So What Did I Miss?
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As Emma Ashford returns to the podcast, she and Trevor Thrall join Cato colleague John Glaser to review the Trump administration’s take on U.S. foreign policy in 2018.
David E. Sangar, “North Korea’s Trump‐era Strategy. Keep Making A‑Bombs, but Quietly,” New York Times, September 16, 2018
Peter Harrell, “Is the US Using Sanctions Too Aggressively?,” Foreign Affairs, September 11, 2018
Michael Hirsch, “John Bolton Is Living the Dream — for Now,” Foreign Policy, September 28, 2018
Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies,” Bloomberg Businessweek, October 4, 2018
Michael Hirsch, “Surprise! Trump’s Disruptive Foreign Policy Could Be Working,” Politico, October 2018
Out of Order? Debating the Past and Future of the Liberal International Order
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Patrick Porter joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss the debate over the past, present, and future of the liberal international order. Porter is a professor of international security and strategy at the University of Birmingham, UK and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. He researches how power and ideas shape U.S. and U.K. defense and foreign policy, and how both shape conflicts both the United States and United Kingdom are involved in.
Patrick Porter bio
Patrick Porter, “A World Imagined: Nostalgia and Liberal Order,” June 2018
Patrick Porter, “Why America’s Grand Strategy Has Not Changed: Power, Habit, and the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment,” International Security, May 4, 2018.
“Liberal International Order: Past, Present, and Future,” Cato Event, September 20, 2018
Bruce Jentleson, “The Post‐Liberal International Order World: Some Core Characteristics,” Lawfare Blog, September 9, 2018
Michael J. Mazarr, “The Real History of the Liberal Order: Neither Myth Nor Accident,” Foreign Affairs, August 7, 2018
Rebecca Friedman Lissner and Mira Rapp‐Hooper, “The Day After Trump: American Strategy for a New International Order,” The Washington Quarterly, June 2018
Jake Sullivan, “The World After Trump: How the System Can Endure,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2018
It’s Not Just about the Elephants: Understanding Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
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Vanda Felbab‐Brown is a senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. She is also the director of the Brookings project “Improving Global Drug Policy: Comparative Perspectives and UNGASS 2016” and co‐director of “Reconstituting Local Orders.” She is an expert on international and internal conflicts and nontraditional security threats, including insurgency, organized crime, urban violence, and illicit economies.
Vanda Felbab‐Brown bio
The Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It
World Wildlife Fund, “Illegal Wildlife Trade”
U.S. Agency for International Development, “Combating Wildlife Trafficking”
Jody Rosen, “Animal Traffic,” New York Times Style Magazine
Charlote Epstein, “The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an Anti‐Whaling Discourse
Trump's Iran Policy: Strategy or Strategery?
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Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss developments in Iran and America’s Iran policy.
Barbara Slavin bio
Barbara Slavin, “US Policies Undercut ‘Support’ for ‘Iranian Voices’ ”
Barbara Slavin, “Renewed Sanctions Will Hurt Iran’s Economy But U.S. Benefits Uncertain”
Barbara Slavin, “Mullahs, Money, and Militias”
Emma Ashford and John Glaser, “Unforced Error: The Risks of Confrontation with Iran”
The Complicated Case of the Rohingyas
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C. Christine Fair is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Peace and Security Studies Program within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss the ongoing Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and its implication on the Trump administration’s policy toward South Asia.
C. Christine Fair’s bio
International Crisis Group, “The Long Haul ahead for Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugee Crisis,” May 16, 2018
Council on Foreign Affairs, “The Rohingya Crisis,” Backgrounder, April 20, 2018
Krishnadev Calamur, “The Misunderstood Roots of Burma’s Rohingya Crisis,” The Atlantic, September 25, 2017
Sahar Khan, “Ethnic Cleansing vs. Genocide,” Cato @ Liberty, November 29, 2017
Counterterrorism Strategy in the Trump Era - Firm or Faux?
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U.S. counterterrorism has been a mixture of unilateral policies and multilateral partnerships. Stephen Tankel of American University joins us today to discuss the trajectory of U.S. counterterrorism strategy under the Trump administration.
Stephen Tankel’s bio
John Glaser’s bio
Stephen Tankel, With Us and Against Us: How America’s Partners Help and Hinder the War on Terror
Stephen Tankel, “https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/09/11/fighting-terrorism-takes-a-global-effort-how-have-3-u-s-presidents-fared-16-years-after-911/?utm_term=.3964cbb11a04,” Monkey Cage, September 11, 2017
Joshua A. Geltzer and Stephen Tankel, “Whatever Happened to Trump’s Counterterrorism Strategy,” The Atlantic, March 1, 2018
Stephen Tankel, “Donald Trump’s Shadow War,” Politico, May 9, 2018
Works for Wonks: A Summer Reading List
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James Goldgeier
Deborah D. Avant, The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Steve Coll, Directorate S: The CIA, and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Paul Holden, Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade
Robert Jervis, Perception and Misconception in International Politics
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Hans Morgethau, Politics Among Nations
Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Ben Rhodes, The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
Joe Sacco, Palestine
Elizabeth Saunders, Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions
Brent Steele, Ontological Security in International Relations: Self‐Identity and the IR State
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Kenneth N. Waltz, Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
Earl Weaver, Winning!
Jack Goldstone, Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics
Justin Vaïsse, Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist
Kori Schake, Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony
Margaret Maron
Charlene Harris
When Terrorists Have Ji-had Enough
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Julie Chernov Hwang from Goucher College joins Trevor Thrall and Sahar Khan to discuss why Indonesian jihadists leave militancy in her new book, Why Terrorists Quit.
Julie Chernov Hwang’s bio
Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists
Julie Chernov Hwang, “The Unintended Consequences of Amending Indonesia’s Anti‐Terrorism Law,” Lawfare Blog, October 1, 2017
Anita Rachman and Ben Otto, “Families with Bombs: Islamic State inspires new wave of Indonesian Terrorism,” Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2018
Sidney Jones, “How ISIS has changed terrorism in Indonesia,” New York Times, May 22, 2018
Statesmanship in the 21st Century
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Bruce Jentleson from Duke University joins Trevor Thrall and Sahar Khan to discuss the importance of statesmanship and his new book, The Peacemakers.
Guest Bio: Bruce Jentleson
The Peacemakers
To Summit or Not to Summit? Trump and North Korea
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Show description: In a special 2‑part episode, Emma Ashford, Trevor Thrall, and new co‐host, Sahar Kahn, discuss North Korea and the prospects for a nuclear summit with Cato Policy Analyst Eric Gomez.
Guest bio: Eric Gomez
Power Problems Episode #4, September 19, 2017: Kim Jong Trump
Eric Gomez, “Not Quite Back to the Drawing Board with North Korea”
Eric Gomez, “Keep Calm and Summit On”
The US: Global Force for Good?
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Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall shift from military affairs this week to talk about humanitarian aid with American University’s Jessica Trisko Darden.
Guest bio: Jessica Trisko Darden
Humanitarian Aid and War
Is Humanitarian Aid a Waste?
It’s (Not) a Thucydides Trap: Rising Powers and Time Horizons
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Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall are joined by David Edelstein of Georgetown University to discuss how great powers respond to rising challengers.
Guest Bio: David Edelstein
Over the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers
Arms Bizarre: Selling Weapons in the Age of Trump
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Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall are joined by Cato’s own Caroline Dorminey to discuss U.S. arms sales in the Trump era.
Guest bio: Caroline Dorminey
Caroline Dorminey and Trevor Thrall. “Risky Business: the Role of Arms Sales in U.S. Foreign Policy”
Paul Holden (ed.) Indefensible: Seven Myths That Sustain the Global Arms TradeM
Jonathan Caverley. “America’s Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home”
Amnesty International. “Iraq: Taking Stock of Arming the Islamic State”
Out of Africa: A New Front in the War on Terror
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Today Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall discuss the expansion of the U.S. war on terror into Africa with Bronwyn Bruton from the Atlantic Council.
Guest Bio: Bronwyn Bruton
Bronwyn Bruton, “Ethiopia: In the Eye of the Storm”
U.S. News and World Report, “Where in the World Is the U.S. Military? Everywhere”
Here Comes the New Russia, Same as the Old Russia
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Vladimir Putin won re‐election handily, but the future of U.S.-Russia relations is a tougher question. We chat with Matthew Rojanksy of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Guest Bio: Matthew Rojansky
“U.S. Russia Policy” in Our Foreign Policy Choices
“Why New Russia Sanctions Won’t Change Moscow’s Behavior” in Foreign Affairs
The Legacy of George Kennan Conference
Yemen: One War or Three?
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We discuss the ongoing war in Yemen and U.S. involvement with Kate Kizer from Win Without War.
Guest bio: Kate Kizer
Council on Foreign Relations Yemen Backgrounder
Cato’s John Glaser on Yemen
What the President Should Do in Yemen
The Nuclear Posture Review: Pushing All the Wrong Buttons?
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Hans Kristensen from the Federation of American Scientists joins us today to discuss the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review.
Hans Kristensen bio
2018 Nuclear Posture Review
Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Posture Review Resource
Texas National Security Review Policy Roundtable on the NPR
The Trump Doctrine at One Year
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Kathleen Hicks from CSIS and Hal Brands from Johns Hopkins SAIS join us to talk about Trump’s foreign policy at the one year mark.
Guest bio: Kathleen Hicks
Guest bio: Hal Brands
National Security Strategy
Summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy
A Trade Policy Deficit
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Guest Bio: Nate Olson
2017 National Security Strategy
Nate Olson, “How Donald Trump Can Avoid a Trade War with China”
Pew Research, “Support for Free Trade Rebounds.”
Hype and Hype-ability: Threat Inflation in U.S. Foreign Policy
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A Dangerous World? edited by Christopher A. Preble and John Mueller
American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear edited by A. Trevor Thrall and Jane K. Cramer
Curiosity: How Will the World End?
All I Want for Christmas Is an F-35: Trump, the Generals and the Pentagon
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In a special live recording of the podcast, we explore the President’s relationship with the military, the defense budget, and what the Pentagon wants for Christmas with our guest Aaron Mehta.
Guest Bio: Aaron Mehta
Aaron Mehta, “One hand tied behind your back: Why DoD’s empty policy chair matters.”
Aaron Mehta, “America’s Nuclear Weapons will cost $1.2 Trillion Over the next 30 Years.”
Chris Preble, “Senate Passes a Pentagon Budget, but a BCA Trainwreck Looms.”
Power Problems Live Event Announcement
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A Syria(s) Problem: Chemical Weapons & International Norms
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Syria’s use of chemical weapons calls into question the utility of international norms. We discuss those norms and how to enforce them with Greg Koblentz.
Guest Bio: Greg Koblentz
Greg Koblentz, “Syria’s Chemical Weapons Kill Chain”
Richard Price, “After Syria, Is There Still a Taboo against the Use of Chemical Weapons?””
Saskia Popescu, “Antimicrobial Resistance: An Underrated Biological Threat””
Middle East Madness
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We chat with Brian Katulis from the Center for American Progress about ongoing chaos in the Middle East, the regional security environment, and the options for America’s future role in the region.
Guest bio: Brian Katulis
Brian Katulis, “Leveraging U.S. Power in the Middle East”
Andrew Bacevich, “Endless War in the Middle East”
Trump and Iran: Deal or No Deal?
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We talk Trump and the future of the Iran nuclear deal with Colin Kahl, former national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden.
Guest Bio: Colin Kahl
Colin Kahl, “The Myth of a ‘Better’ Iran Deal”
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
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Guest Bio: Alexander Downes
Targeting Civilians in War
“Rohingya Account Atrocities,” New York Times
The Art of the (Nuclear) Deal
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Guest Bio: Ariane Tabatabai
“Preserving the Nuclear Deal”
“Regime Change in Iran Wouldn’t Work”
Kim Jong Trump
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Tensions are rising on the Korean peninsula, between North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests and Trump’s inflammatory tweets. We discuss the situation with Joshua Pollack. Show notes:
Guest Bio: Joshua Pollack
What Does the Timing of North Korea’s Missile Tests Mean?
Is Ballistic Missile Defense the Answer?
Same Strategy, Different Day
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Today we talk about Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy with Sameer Lalwani. Is there anything new here?
Guest Bio: Sameer Lalwani
Trump’s Televised Speech on Afghanistan Strategy
It’s All about Those (Military) Bases
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This week we ask John Glaser: why does the U.S. have so many military bases around the world? Show notes:
Guest Bio: John Glaser
John Glaser, “Withdrawing from Overseas Bases: Why a Forward‐Deployed Military Posture Is Unnecessary, Outdated, and Dangerous”
More Power More Problems
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Christopher Preble joins us to discuss what restraint in foreign policy means and what it would look like in practice.
Guest Bio: Christopher Preble
Barry Posen, Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
Cato Institute, “Our Foreign Policy Choices: Rethinking America’s Global Role”
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Pro tips Q&A with stand-up comedian & podcast host Matt Bachus
by Myelle Lansat August 13th, 2020
Stand-up comedian Matt Bachus has made his fair share of financial blunders, like moving to New York City on a comedian’s salary and living in a windowless room to keep rent down. Instead of crying about it, he started a personal finance podcast called “Hold My Bread” to create a resource for others to break down the denser parts of personal finance, while still being able to laugh and have fun.
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This interview has been lightly edited for style and clarity.
How did you prepare financially to move to New York City?
I was performing a lot of stand-up comedy all over the country for a few years and was lucky enough to live at home rent-free. That really helped me stack up a nice bankroll for the move. I paid off my bills, sold my car and mentally prepared to live on a thin budget then tried my best to stay under that budget — while still buying sneakers.
Did you stick to that plan or did you have to pivot?
I did a good job preparing before I moved, but nothing really prepared me for what I was getting into. Just moving into a place and everything that comes with that had a huge impact on my savings within just a few days. New York is the kind of city where they land the plane and you take two steps out of the airport and you’ve already spent $60 somehow.
How did you budget during your first few years?
I had to live. There was a lot of sleeping though breakfast, eating one big meal for the day around 5 p.m., living in a windowless bedroom so my rent was lower. A lot of sacrifices that people like to say makes for a good story until you’re living in it.
What’s your No. 1 financial advice for someone looking to do the same?
Save money, pay off bills, have as little debt as possible and don’t move to New York during a pandemic.
So, what’s a stand-up comic doing with a financial podcast?
Comedians aren’t known for being the most financially stable and finance can be so boring. My cohost Joel Walkowski and I wanted to create a resource for people to learn with us while still being able to laugh and have fun to break up how dense a lot of finance is. There are a lot of finance podcasts out there, but we really try to separate ourselves by putting in educational things and news stories while still making each other laugh.
How can having a sense of humor improve our financial well-being?
Timing is very important in both. I think they’ve both taught me to keep my eyes and ears open to both observe what’s funny and what to write about in the same way it’s important to pick up on trends around you that influence the market.
It never feels good to lose money. I love a good gamble, but I’ve had some bad beats financially and just in life. Sometimes all you can do is laugh because if you don’t laugh you’re just going to cry and you can’t cry forever.
What’s your current money goal & how are you working toward it?
Remember that windowless room I told you about? Rent in New York is insane and I’m working toward being able to move out and afford a place with a window — maybe even two. I’m trying my best to get my podcast to help bring in money while making wise investments and taking advantage of what I can during these strange times.
What’s the biggest money mistake you see other people make?
Being a comedian means I’m very reliant on myself in a lot of ways so the better tools I have to help make money and make good decisions with that money the better. I never felt school prepared me financially and given the state of things lately it’s important to learn the skills to help yourself financially and know when those skills are most useful. I also think having good credit is underrated.
What’s the worst financial advice you’ve ever received?
I’ve been given some pretty bad tips on betting parlays that cost me more times than I’d like to remember.
What’s the best financial advice you’ve ever received?
My mom told me about the 52-week challenge years ago and I’ve been doing it ever since. I recommend that to all of my friends anytime they’re curious about saving and anybody not familiar should look into it.
What’s the best money you’ve ever spent?
I’ve never regretted spending money on a pair of nice sneakers.
What’s the best money you’ve ever saved?
Any money I’ve ever made doing stand up comedy feels like it’s worth 10 times what it actually is.
Image: Nastia Kobzarenko
Myelle Lansat is a personal finance writer at Policygenius. She previously wrote about all things money for CNBC, Business Insider and Bankrate. Follow her on Twitter @MyelleLansat
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A boxset of Amy Winehouse's live performances for the BBC is being released later this year
A new boxset of live material entitled 'Amy Winehouse At The BBC' will be released later this year, it's been announced.
The three-DVD-and-CD collection will include a 14-track album of Amy's live sessions as picked by Jools Holland, footage of her first ever TV performances and rarely seen clips which includes covers and live versions of songs from both her studio albums.
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ReFramed No. 13: Yasujiro Ozu’s 'An Autumn Afternoon' (1962)
Jordan Cronk and Calum Marsh
PopMatters Staff
Across a 50-plus film career, Yasujiro Ozu managed a singularity of vision that is unmatched in the history of the medium. His thematic inclination coupled with perhaps the most effortlessly formalist visual aesthetic ever conceived marks his catalogue as one of a unified, personal vision.
An Autumn Afternoon
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida
US Release Date: 1962
Jordan Cronk: Critics often speak of the "big three" of the Japanese film industry: Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu. A problem presents itself, however, when ensconcing these very different filmmakers into a single stratum of excellence: a canon of titles begins to take shape before eventually becoming identified with each director's collected filmography. In the case of Ozu this is a particularly easy bit of critical shorthand to fall prey to. Across a 50-plus film career, Ozu managed a singularity of vision that is unmatched in the history of the medium. His thematic inclination -- the plight of the middle class Japanese family unit -- coupled with perhaps the most effortlessly formalist visual aesthetic ever conceived -- static, low-angle camera setups; sharp cutting; "pillow" shot inserts; and very little else -- not to mention the closely related, seasonal stamps given many of his films, marks his catalogue as one of a unified, personal vision. Thus his most widely-seen films tend to represent the whole of a career that in fact spun variations on a theme as fruitfully and as diversely as any other, more genre-restless filmmaker you could name.
So we have Tokyo Story, then, the film which introduced Ozu to the West, and just as Seven Samurai is to Kurosawa and Ugetsu is to Mizoguchi, it's become widely representative of the man's achievements, often times at the expense of equally rich and rewarding efforts made throughout his almost forty-year career. And that's no mark against the quality of Tokyo Story, by any standards one of the greatest films ever made, but more of an indictment of critical group-think that frequently propagates convenient notions of narrative and longevity with unfair disregard to budding bouts genius or refined displays of maturation. The latter's perhaps the easiest to ignore, which makes the sublime tranquility of Ozu's final film, 1963's An Autumn Afternoon, that much easier to overlook. As a crowning work it's arguably one of the most perfect encapsulations of one filmmaker’s myriad tendencies and inarguably a capstone to a career which in many ways thrived on understatement.
Like any number of Ozu films, An Autumn Afternoon reads on paper like a simplistic portrayal of everyday people dealing with life's inevitabilities, but as he did through dozens of his best films, Ozu imbues such sentiments with an achingly emotional, humanist dimension that renders these trials as epic tragedy. We spoke of a similar tendency in the work Aki Kaurismaki -- one of Ozu's most accomplished aesthetic descendants -- a couple of weeks ago, but as the years go by I find myself continually drawn to the subtle, contemplative tone of Ozu's work, which seems to exist just outside of reality as it does nothing so much as document day-to-day life. I have little doubt that you can find the whole of the world in the work of Ozu -- no mean feat for a filmmaker many naysayers accuse of lacking range and ambition. One grows and matures alongside Ozu's films, which leads me to suggest the distinct possibility that An Autumn Afternoon may be the man's supreme artistic achievement.
Calum Marsh: I think I’d agree -- it’s really something special. We should probably be quick to point out, though, that despite our emerging predilection for the neglected final films of canonical directors, An Autumn Afternoon isn’t exactly what you’d fairly call “underrated”. While Ozu was largely unknown to Western critics for the entirety of his career (as the studio for which he consistently worked speculated that he’d be too esoteric for any international market), he’s been celebrated widely since his eventual “discovery” in the 1970s, and An Autumn Afternoon is one of his most beloved pictures.
But you’re certainly right about the widespread over-emphasis on his mid-career opus Tokyo Story: it’s been championed as the definitive Ozu for so long that it’s hard to remember to pay attention to anything else. And you’re right, too, that Ozu’s conspicuous stylistic consistency lends itself to easy and unfortunate pigeon-holing, a real shame considering the emotional range of his filmography as a hole. I wouldn’t necessarily object if the old guard unanimously declared Tokyo Story Ozu’s unqualified masterpiece, but to champion it at the expense of championing anything else the man made -- to act like it can somehow stand in for any other Ozu film -- is just plain reductive.
Oh, and about your quick comparison to Kaurismaki -- I think that’s an overlooked comparison, but a very interesting one. The formal similarities are somewhat easy to pick up on, of course; both favour exaggerated compositions, symmetrical framing, static cameras, and, when Ozu was shooting in colour (which he did less than a half-dozen times across his career, but which he does marvellously here), a bold and spectacular palette. But what might be a little less obvious are the tonal and thematic similarities: as we discussed in detail last week, Kaurismaki is a master of sardonic melancholy, a kind of dry, black humour that’s shot through with sadness. I think Ozu had a similar feel for the comic undertones of tragedy (and vice versa), but that’s a quality of his work which is rarely discussed. I mean, I agree with you that An Autumn Afternoon is “achingly emotional" -- it nearly brought me to tears, in fact -- but at the same time I find it very amusing. Am I totally misreading this thing, or do you get what I mean there?
Cronk: Oh, I completely get it. I just re-watched the film in preparation for this discussion and the humor really stood out to me. The three elder male characters -- each concerned in one way or another with the marriage of their daughter or each other's daughters -- have multiple discussions that are very funny. There are bits about pills for sexual performance, jokes about death at the expense of a waitress at a restaurant they frequent, and many alcohol-related psychical gags that are humorous. Like Drifting Clouds, An Autumn Afternoon seems to strike the perfect balance between humor and pathos. Ozu would touch on both extremes more directly -- I'm thinking of Good Morning on the humorous side and, say, Late Spring on the emotional -- but there seems to be just the right amount of both on display here.
And you're right to point out that this and many of Ozu's films are currently and consistently held in high regard. But more than most -- and this goes back to his stylistic singularity -- Ozu seems to be painted as a one-note artist, leading to Tokyo Story's stand-in status as the de-facto Ozu. He has so many films we could have chosen for this column, all which seem to exist just off of the pinnacle that many decided long ago that he had reached by the early '50s. Which is a perfectly logical and perhaps accurate assumption; it just worries me that many of Ozu's outlying works don't often get treated as the stand alone statements that they are obviously meant to be.
Marsh: That’s yet another problem with pre-established, uncontested film canons: sometimes you wind up neglecting more than you highlight. We talk a lot about this idea of late or final films which somehow summarize or encapsulate the career-long tendencies of a given filmmaker, and although we risk being reductive ourselves in speaking in those terms, it’s an attractive idea when dealing with a filmmakers as distinctive (and distinctively well-regarded) as Ozu. And An Autumn Afternoon does indeed feel totalizing in its own way, bringing together many of the themes and styles which recurred through Ozu’s filmography in a way which feels mature and deeply considered. Which isn’t to say that An Autumn Afternoon is any kind of epic -- it’s far too lithe and vibrant to fit that description. It’s just that if you’re looking at Ozu’s filmography as a whole, this is the film which most wholly encompasses his strongest qualities as a filmmaker, and such it’s sort of the perfect way to end his career. It’s dynamic and hilarious, as we’ve already mentioned, but it’s also deeply moving and, one can sense, intensely personal.
I hesitate to speculate too much about the connections between the film’s lonely, aging protagonist and Ozu himself, who never came close to marrying and who lived with his mother for more than 60 years, but it’s difficult to ignore the parallels: most of Ozu’s films deal with the responsibilities of family life in one way or another, and many more deal with the social pressures surrounding marriage in Japanese life. An Autumn Afternoon feels like the final chapter on the subject: in it, Hirayama (played beautifully by Ozu regular Chishu Ryu), a middle-aged widower and father of three, slowly reconciles himself to the idea that he must encourage his sole daughter, Michiko, to marry before it’s too late, even though she practically runs his life for him and he would be lost, both emotionally and functionally, without her.
As is the case with most Ozu films, An Autumn Afternoon tells a relatively simple story, but the emotional depth is tremendous. Ozu knows that the relationship between Hirayama and his daughter is far more complex than it initially appears, and though neither are provided with an opportunity to explicate their feelings on either their initial dependency or their eventual separation, what they don’t say still says volumes -- every minor look or exchange between the two, however slight or seemingly insignificant, is loaded with meaning. I know we have something of an obsession with memorable final shots in this column, Jordan, but I hope you’ll agree when I say that An Autumn Afternoon’s high point comes a little earlier, as Hirayama visits Michiko in her room as she’s preparing to wed -- little more than a glance passes between them, but the moment is devastating.
Cronk: And what's interesting and what perhaps lends that moment so much weight is what Ozu elides in the narrative. Michiko's eventual husband is mentioned frequently as a potential suitor but what Ozu consistently frames is solely father and daughter. This film concerns itself with these two people, and though the extended family have sub-plots and are contrasted in fascinating ways with that of its main characters, An Autumn Afternoon is a study of a paternal bond that neither essentially wants to break but which the father knows is best for all involved.
Another very emotional moment comes just before the scene you mentioned, and it in-turn is juxtaposed with a similar scene earlier on that Ozu plays for comic effect. At one point Hirayama goes to a local bar with an old cadet that he trained during the war years, and together they re-live the glory days as the bartender plays a military march on the hi-fi. It's a goofy, fun scene that is re-imagined later on when Hirayama again visits the bar, this time solo. But as the music begins to take hold of Hirayama this time out, those halcyon days begin to fade and a deep sense of regret and longing take form in its place. This time Hirayama sits there stoic, eyes swelling over the decision he has just made concerning his daughter while coming to the realization that his life is about to take its final turn into the twilight years. The last 20 minutes of the film, in fact, are just one sustained, deeply devastating succession of thoughts, glances, statements, and feelings after another.
And, of course, the final shot is just gutting, lent retrospective gravitas in a manner similar to that of another film we've discussed in these pages, John Cassavetes' Love Streams. That this would turn out to be Ozu's final work is, as you suggest, appropriate for a film so concerned with offspring taking care of a parent, something Ozu spent a lifetime doing alongside his professional role as a filmmaker. Nothing about this suggests a film that is too "Japanese," which is what held Ozu back from early worldwide distribution. If anything, the feelings conjured by his work are so universal that he could be said to be the cinema's great humanist.
Marsh: Yes, absolutely. I think I understand where his distributors were coming from with the charges of cultural specificity, at least abstractly, but I don’t think its origins would impede anybody’s ability to relate to this or any other Ozu film. What’s fascinating about An Autumn Afternoon, in fact, is that while so much of its narrative is shaped by a very specifically Japanese social structure, none of the emotions elicited by the film are defined by that structure. Once Ozu has established that his protagonist feels it’s his duty to marry off his daughter despite his reliance on her around the house, we’re emotionally invested in the premise -- whether that’s literally a foreign concept to us socially is irrelevant, because the emotional circumstances are never in the least bit remote.
We can accept the motivations of the characters because they make perfect emotional sense, even if the specific mores by which they’re guided seem antiquated by contemporary (and, I imagine, distinctly American) standards. That lack of friction, typically imposed by cultural or historical distance, is precisely what allows us to feel so emotionally invested in the film. That’s quite an accomplishment, and I think it’s a testament to the warmth and generosity of the film; Ozu makes it about these characters and their feelings, and even if the events belong resolutely to their time and place, Ozu’s empathy for people will always be universal.
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Rihanna, Cheryl, JLS and More Wow at Summertime Ball
Pictures of 2010 Capital FM Summertime Ball Inc Cheryl Cole, Rihanna, JLS, Justin Bieber, Kesha, Pixie Lott, Usher
7 June 2010 by POPSUGAR Celebrity UK
Wembley Stadium played host to Capital FM's Summertime Ball yesterday. Cheryl Cole travelled back from Paris to perform a set alongside her dancer and close friend Derek Hough. She didn't let the revelation that Ashley Cole's reportedly fallen for lapdancer distract her from the job at hand. Rihanna also flew in from Spain for the show, and wrapped up in a blanket after she partied at Mahiki. Let BellaUK know whether you love or hate Rihanna's new red hair.
The crowds were treated to plenty of other performances, from acts such as JLS, Justin Bieber, Usher, Ke$ha and Pixie Lott. Chipmunk, Jason Derulo, Tinie Tempah, Esmee Denters and Alexandra Burke were also there, as were Lisa Snowdon and Johnny Vaughan.
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Myleene Klass Is Pregnant!
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Myleene Klass has announced that she is pregnant! She revealed the fantastic news this afternoon via her new twitter account.
She's been engaged to Graham "Gray" Quinn for five years and their daughter Ava is now 3 years old. She recently said:
"Ava has told me she wants a sister but yesterday she changed her mind and said she wants a rabbit. I'd definitely like more children but Gray, in a very un-Irish manner only wants one more. I'd quite happily have three, four, five... a little mini quartet. I remember our house as a kid being madness and fun and I want the same for her. Brothers and sisters fight each other but when you are out in the big wide world no one else is allowed to. You've got that solidarity."
Myleene also has a range of baby clothes and buggies called Baby K, so the new baby will be well catered for! Big congrats to Myleene and Graham!
Image Source: WENN
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Taylor Swift is making the rounds to promote her new album, 1989, in London this week, and along the way, she stopped by The Graham Norton Show for a hilarious group interview with legendary actor John Cleese and cricketer Kevin Pietersen. It didn't take long for Graham to show pictures of Taylor's cats, Meredith and Olivia Benson, after which John let out a slew of criticisms about the singer's furry friends. Sure, we've seen several versions of Taylor's surprise face over the years, but nothing can prepare you for the looks she gave the guys, especially after John said cats are "unpredictable and cussed, like women." Watch her priceless and tactful reaction to the insult in the video above, and then find out which other stars are self-professed cat ladies.
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A fun, bizarre genre-shifted Yakuza experience that somehow works better than you’d expect.
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Written by: Cory Galliher | November 23, 2020
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ESRB Rating: M for Mature
Sometimes sequels offer more of the same! That’s great, of course; who’s going to complain about getting more of a taste they loved? Other times, though, a sequel goes in a completely different direction to try something new, and that can either be great or a complete flop depending on how that direction turns out. One solid example of how well this can work is Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which takes the classic beat ’em-up/crane-game/Virtua Fighter simulator series and turns it into a turn-based RPG…somehow. It works better than it might sound, trust me.
Ichiban Kasuga’s doing his best to climb up the ladder of yakuza life. These days he’s just a mook, but his favorite game series Dragon Quest has taught him that if you want to move up, you’ve got to grind some levels. Sometimes that means getting into a little more trouble than you’d counted on, though, like when Kasuga is asked by his beloved boss to take the fall for a murder. Decades later, Kasuga assembles a ragtag band of misfits in the city of Yokohama to investigate crime, skeeze and whether or not there’s change under the local vending machines. There’s more going on than a mook like Kasuga might expect, though, and sticking your nose into the wrong place might be dangerous.
Like in Dragon Quest, though, a real hero needs to deal with danger sometimes. That’s why Kausga and Co. solve their problems via the time-honored tradition of turn-based combat. If you’ve played previous Yakuza games – or even if you haven’t – you can imagine how ridiculous this is. Half the fun of Like a Dragon from the outset of the game is reconciling the complete absurdity on offer. There’s even cute Yakuza-style touches like characters using props from the surroundings in their attacks and boss battles featuring the
Combat’s pretty straightforward hit-and-heal fare early on, but as you proceed you’ll unlock combo attacks, and a surprisingly deep job system that allows you to customize your steadily growing stable of party members. Said job system allows you to fill your team with breakdancers, idols and bartenders, so go nuts. You haven’t seen a fight until you’ve got an old man breakdancing people to death or your heroic main character pulling out a fat stack of cash and using it to smack the enemies around. This isn’t just for show, either, as there’s tons of activities to participate in and baddies to fight. If you want to see and do everything, engaging with the game’s systems is paramount.
Beating people up is only one part of the Yakuza equation, of course, turn-based or not. As expected from this franchise, there’s piles of side activities that are bound to suck up hours of your free time. You can play arcade games, including the ever-popular full versions of Virtua Fighter 2 and 5! There’s darts! There’s mahjong! There’s a detailed business management simulator! There’s no shortage of things to do and all of it’s given the same amount of love as the main game. There’s even accurate representations of various pachislot machines from Japan, but let’s talk about that real quick…
See, one issue worth noting is that while there’s plenty to do in Like a Dragon, several activities are locked behind DLC, and the ability to actually access these is related to the means by which you obtained the game. In particular, the version of Like a Dragon available on the Microsoft Store is bugged such that little to none of the DLC actually works when purchased, and efforts to address this have gone without response.
Even considering the issues that the COVID-19 pandemic have caused for game releases in 2020, radio silence for this kind of thing is questionable. If you plan on playing Like a Dragon, it might be best to stick with the Steam or console versions.
Even if you get the Microsoft Store version and end up locked out of your DLC, though, you’ll probably still be pleased with Like a Dragon’s presentation. It’s a great-looking game that really leans into both the comedy and drama of the Yakuza franchise. Kasuga’s tendency to imagine everyday situations – or, well, battles with gangsters – as Dragon Quest-style RPG fights means that enemies take on hilarious forms in combat, while party members end up in goofy costumes wielding ridiculous weapons. While hardly the next-gen showcase its publishers might have you believe, everything here looks and runs great.
DLC silliness aside, Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a better RPG than it has any right to be, and still fits in nicely with the series as a whole. The enormous amount of content, exciting action and goofy RPG-style combat all come together to make a game that’s more than the sum of its crazy individual parts. Even newcomers to the Yakuza franchise are bound to find something to love in Ichiban’s story. Set aside sixty hours or so of your life and dig in.
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National Dental Hygienists Week is a time to reflect on what dental hygiene means to those of us in the profession. As Dental Hygienists, we are part of a larger team of health care providers who are passionate about our patients’ health and well-being. Our primary role is oral disease prevention to improve or maintain our patients’ overall oral health. We belong to a regulated health profession, and can work in a variety of settings, including private practice, public health, hospitals, long-term care facilities, educational institutions, and so on. We are dedicated to our profession, being coaches, educators and advocates for our patients.
Our ability to help improve the health of others is far reaching, however, because of this, we often forget about our own health and safety within the workplace. As a Dental Hygienists, we can be exposed to a number of workplace-related health and safety risks and hazards, including ergonomic issues, neck and back strain, and other repetitive strain injuries, percutaneous injuries related to needlesticks, instruments and scalers, exposures to dangerous chemicals and blood borne pathogens, noise pollution, and violence, abuse and harassment from patients, co-workers and employers.
I can genuinely say that there is an incredible need to increase awareness regarding employee safety within our field. I have personally witnessed how health and safety incidents at work can dramatically change the lives of fellow dental hygienists and their ability to work. It is critical that we continue the conversation about risk factors that surround our profession, and that we collectively focus our energy on prevention in order to foster a safe and healthy work environment for all of us.
We often say to our patients: ”Take 2 minutes, 2 times daily to look after your oral health”. Over this next week, as Dental Hygienists, let’s make a commitment ourselves to take 2 minutes, 2 times daily to make sure we are looking after our health and safety at work. Take the time to be reminded of your workplace rights and responsibilities, become familiar with and understand your workplace policies, ask about required and additional health and safety training, and ensure that you are protected at work.
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The Charismatic Appeal of Nelson Mandela
What the world saw—and wanted to see—in Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a rewarding example and great source of inspiration for anyone who has anything to do with leadership, from politicians to CEOs and journalists to researchers. Scientists have long been searching for that mysterious 'X ' factor of leadership, charisma. Jesus and Buddha had it, Churchill, Gandhi, FDR, and JFK possessed it too. Obama had charisma when he ran for office for the first time, but somewhere lost it on the way. I'm pretty sure that Nelson Mandela was gifted with that X-factor leadership quality too.
What is charismatic leadership? The 19th century German sociologist Max Weber defines it in terms of "a particular quality of a person on the basis of which he is distinguished from ordinary people and endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least exceptional personal qualities."
In the tradition of Weber many psychologists have looked primarily at the personal qualities of charismatic leaders. They discovered for instance that charismatic leaders are verbally gifted—they use a lot of metaphors in their speeches—and have a good antenna for what people think and what worries them. The latter is called empathic accuracy.
Other researchers put more emphasis on the actual behaviors of charismatic leaders. Leaders are more charismatic when they set the group interests above their own personal interests . Both characteristics—empathy and self-sacrifice—were obviously eminently present in Mandela’s case. What contemporary leader has spent a good part of his life in captivity for a greater cause —although he was repeatedly offered freedom if promised to give up the armed struggle against the Apartheid regime?
The eyes of the beholder
But these personal qualities were only part of the charismatic appeal of Nelson Mandela. Charismatisch leadership is not just something about the person, but maybe especially about the situation. Think of the simple gardener—beautifully played by Peter Sellers—in the classic movie Being There. By pure coincidence he ends up in the top of American politics because he conveys these simple wisdoms about how the garden changes with the seasons. Fellow politicians and the public cannot get enough of his wisdoms and perceive him as the savior of the country.
Psychological research shows that charisma is largely ' "in the eyes of the beholder.” Does this apply to Mandela too?
Nelson Mandela was lucky in some way. When he was released from prison most people in South Africa and the world were convinced that apartheid was a bad thing and they wanted this system removed. Mandela was the poster boy of the anti-apartheid struggle, and his great esteem and forgiving nature were just what the world was looking for in terms of bringing political change.
Psychological research shows that people want a charismatic leader in crisis situations. In one study when participants were asked to write down how they felt if they knew that they were dying, they more often choose to follow a charismatic leader, whereas under normal conditions they preferred a task orientated leader.
Charismatic leadership is particularly important when people are desperately looking for change and are dissatisfied with the existing political hierarchy in bringing about change. Consider the charismatic appeal of Jesus in response to dissatisfaction with the corrupt priests of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In such cases people are more likely to follow someone outside the existing political hierarchy is and whose reputation is not being corrupted by the past. Again, Because Mandela was absent for 27 years from the political scene in South Africa he fitted the bill perfectly.
Research shows that outsiders have more charisma. People with salient physical characteristics, such as particularly large or asymmetric face, tend to score higher on charismatic leadership scale.
The same “attention-holding power” of outsiders is seen in groups of primates. Sometimes newcomers appear in a group and they suddenly draw attention, especially from the females . They use that attention to challenge the alpha and overthrow him with the support of the lower ranked animals.
The relation between charisma and sex appeal is not spurious. After public speeches Adolf Hitler - who was also very charismatic – regularly received letters from women in the audience who were intensely love with him and thought he was in love with them too because he stared at them. It is rumored that Mandela was also very popular with women. Yet unlike Hitler he reciprocated the interest of women sometimes.
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Charisma is probably the oldest, most primitive form of leadership because it is entirely based on special personal qualities of someone who a group currently needs as their leader. In hunter -gatherer societies the hunters , doctors or warriors enjoy the most respect. To get charisma and attract followers, it is useful to know what value you can have for the group you want to lead.
What many people do not know about Mandela is that since his childhood he received a lot of training in leadership The most important lessons about leadership did not come from his law practice or his imprisonment on Robben Island, but from his adoptive father. After his biological father died, Mandela was adopted by Jongintaba Dalindyebo , the supreme leader of the Thembu , a tribe in eastern South Africa. This tribal leader was very concerned about the fate of his people and also very diplomatic. Young Nelson watched as people from all walks of life stopped by to convey their problems to the chief. His father listened carefully and only spoke after everyone had finished . He did not make decisions for them, but merely gave advice and suggestions.
Just like with his father, Nelson’s charisma grew day by day in South-Africa, Africa and the world at large and his diplomatic skills were an important part of his charismatic appeal.
So if we want to understand Mandela’s charisma we have to consider both his personality and upbringing as well as the needs and anxieties of the people who were desperately looking for someone like Mandela to represent them. That X-factor of leadership, charisma is best understood by considering both person and situation.
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If Introversion was more "acceptable" a lot of industries would be less profitable...such as psychologists/psychiatry and the drug industries. Playing off ANXIETY is extremely profitable as though that is exclusive to Introverts; playing off the "survival of the fittest" ideology is also extremely profitable and advantageous for the privileged, aggressive and most corrupt.
1 in 25 people are psychopaths -- yet doctors claim they're "incurable" -- How convenient is that? Most psychopaths are males...and that is a fact. Is there an agenda to maintain the status quo and male privilege?
1 in 88 people have "Autism" -- that would include geniuses like Albert Einstein and many other introverts on the "spectrum". Doctors are looking to eradicate and find a cure for Autism -- including everyone on the spectrum. What would this cure look like???
Psychopathy is more prevalent and dangerous to society than Autism -- but doctors and the United Nations and the WHO are simply not interested in reducing psychopathy or finding a cure for it (they're the ones who deemed it "uncurable" afterall); but have a huge and strange fascination on trying preventing Autism and those on the spectrum. There are HUGE and expensive advertising campaigns worldwide and spokespeople and celebrities talking about Autism and asking people to look for "signs". It's very strange, the enormous amount of attention and focus on Autism by doctors, the United Nations and the WHO. (I can understand those with severe Autism -- but WTF is this "spectrum" shit about???) In comparison to all this hoopla, one would conclude that psychopathic traits are normal!!!
Charisma = Perception Management in this day and age
Submitted by Anonymous on December 10, 2013 - 4:32pm
In reading about Nelson Mandela, I read about two completely different people.
He accomplished some great things while, from what I have read elsewhere, some very horrible atrocities. Advocating extreme violence in accomplishing goals among other items. So, I am not sure if it was truly charisma. He was a great orator and apparently could connect with an audience and with individuals. However, was the "legend" just that? Was it media manipulation or propaganda that launched what we think of him?
I honestly do not know as I have tried to look at both sides of this and make a determination. But it appears in our media driven age, it is more managing image than anything else.
So at what point does he come back from the dead and walk on water?
Submitted by Martian Bachelor on December 11, 2013 - 11:31am
Every kiss of an amerikkkan whore begins with south african blood gold and guts diamonds.
Revolution? What revolution?
His jailers and handlers got the puppet they wanted.
Have another SWPL-gasm.
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